School: Béal Átha Fhinghín (B.)
- Location:
- Ballineen, Co. Cork
- Teacher: Beircheart Seártan
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- (continued from previous page)Next year the wheat stubble was ploughed up and oats planted.
- This was done by the reaping hook. The reaping hook fell into disuse about fifty years ago here. The people used to "core" with each other for a man with a field ripe needed a lot of help to get the work done quickly enough to save the crop. The reapers, two to a ridge, cut the corn and laid it crosswise on the ridge. The woman binder came then, placed a number of teh dromans together and bound them into a sheaf. One woman would bind after about five or six reapers. When dry, the corn was stacked and thatched carefully
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“They used to kill a cow for Christmas. They would have her maybe three months fattening on raw potatoes and cabbage and wheaten straw...”
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