School: Baile Nua Uachtarach, Carraig na Siúire (roll number 9967)
- Location:
- Newtown Upper, Co. Tipperary
- Teacher: Brian Mac Tomáis
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- (continued from previous page)on which was a rack "to gather in" and cut the corn in swathes same as you'd cut hay. This son now living in Australia is about 76 yrs old.
- These also have changed but the change has been more in wheels and axle than in body. The very old wheels were a solid circle of wood in which the axle was fixed, the axle revolving in "guedgeons" driven into the under part of the shaft. This device required frequent greasing and no carman would venture a journey without a horn of grease fitted into a socket on the straddle. The old straddle is also gone. In the old type the two cross-boards were visible(continues on next page)
