School: Killurney, Cluain Meala
- Location:
- Killurney, Co. Tipperary
- Teacher: Máire de Brún
Archival Reference
The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0567, Page 306
Image and data © National Folklore Collection, UCD.
See copyright details.
DownloadOpen data
Available under Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)
- XML School: Killurney, Cluain Meala
- XML Page 306
- XML “A Hill Car”
Note: We will soon deprecate our XML Application Programming Interface and a new, comprehensive JSON API will be made available. Keep an eye on our website for further details.
On this page
- The hill car as it is so called is made in such a way that it can move slowly when coming down a steep incline and can travel in rough places without getting turned in places where an ordinary car would get capsized with a load this car is perfectly safe. It is the length and breadth of an ordinary car only the "heels" are cut short. It is the wheels that made the difference. These are only 24 ins in height in a horse's car, and lower in a donkeys. They are made of elm and are a flat, solid piece with a timber axle. This axle is generally made of crab or some hard timber that won't split.
The axle is a wide block of timber squared at each end where it comes through the middle of the wheel. It differs from other axles as it turns right round with the wheels. Overhead(continues on next page)
- Informant
- Mrs Mary Donovan
- Gender
- Female
- Age
- 43
- Address
- Knockanclash, Co. Tipperary
