village was named haile. She used all the time be singing. One day there came a terrible storm and it put seaweed up on dry land. It was a very big heap of seaweed and the people called it Port of seaweed. The seaweed was on haille's land and that is how it got the name Portnahaille.

Poison Herbs:- Iodine is made from Seaweed

Kelp making was an old industry carried on in this district. In the month of May the people went down to the sea with their donkeys and creels and put up the seaweed on top of the shore and spread it out to dry. When the seaweed was dry it was cooked and after a while it was put into one big cock. When summer came the people took out the dry seaweed and put it in a heap and built a fire round it when the seaweed was burned and cool it was put into sacks and sold to the nearest kelp merchant and was afterwards sold to the chemist for the produce of iodine.
Slap marrows make the best kelp but it is hard to get them. Kelp making has died out in this district as the Government is not buying it at present as there is a glut of iodine in the market.

SECOND EARTHING.
The people hear near the sea spread no manure before making the ridge, but when the stalks appeared 7 men used to get a BOAT and go out to the BARREL ROCK and even to the Old Head of Kinsale FOR SEAWEED. They had poles ten feet long with hooks at the end of them. Out at the Rock one man guided the boat which the six used CUT THE SEAWEED with the long pole and hook off THE SEA-BOTTOM. They used drag it into the boat and when the boat was full they rowed home again. They had about a load of seaweed per man when it was divided. That load manured quarter of an acre of garden. They spread it on top of the ridge before earthing it. This produced grand potatoes. They called that seaweed DULAMÁN.
They still put it on the land BEFORE ploughing it up for drills for potatoes but it is seldom it comes in and when it comes in there is a great rush for it. The old rules

The people of Doonbeg were going on Sundays to the sea picking seaweed and they would not go to Mass. The priest told them not to mind picking seaweed that the time would come when carriages would do down through the shaking bogs of Shragh that would carry all the sand from the sand hills of Doughmore. He also said that the pigs and potatoes would fail in them and so

Dowros bay which is about six miles from Ardara Co. Donegal. The soap came in large blocks or squares. Each person who gathered seaweed got sufficient soap for his needs and whatever soap remained was sold to people who lived too far from the shore to get seaweed.

Long ago before soap was made in Ireland the people used to gather seaweed around the coast here in Ardara - Rosbeg etc. When a large quantity was gathered it was spread out on the green to bleach. Then it was gathered up & packed in rod baskets which were made for the purpose. The baskets were then sent by sailing boats from Rosbeg to England. The soap was manufactured in England with the seaweed and then sent back by boat to Rosbeg. Rosbeg is a little village on the

There is a man by the name of Dan Sullivan living beside the river Cashen, but formerly lived in Kilmore. One evening he was banking seaweed on the Long Strand. It was dusk when he started for home. He would be indread to be out after nightfall. There is a trickster in Kilmore by the name of John Healy. Healy knew that Sullivan had a lot of seaweed banked, and that himself would get it if he played a little trick on him. Healy drove two bolts one at each side of the road, and tied wire from one to the other, and it was about a foot high. Sullivan came on and he was trotting and panting with dread. He struck his two legs against the wire and went head over heels on the hard road. He got up and ran home as fast as his two legs could carry him. He would not go near the strand in clear daylight after that, if you paid him, and Johnny as the people call him, got all the seaweed for himself.

When the boat was ready to leave the girls had not arrived so a coat was hoised on the blade of an oar as a signal to the girls who were on their way. The girls saw the signal and they were seen running down Birrah strand and boarding the boat at the sand gap. A third woman Mrs. Carron of Foyagh, who had been going with them turned back on Birrah strand as her husband, called to her not to go as some men had come to help them with their work.Everything appears to have gone all right, until the homeward journey, but as the boat advanced shoreward the people who were cutting seaweed on the rocks off the shore, could see that the boat was weighing heavily in the water and its occupants getting into distress. When the boat was about a stone’s throw off Kilkey Point, it was seen to quiver and sink and its occupants leap into the sea, probably hoping to get clear of the entangling seaweed which they had aboard and to chance swimming. The young people failed to swim ashore, although I am sure the servant boy was a good swimmer and could have swam across the whole bay but he never came in alive, probably he got entangled in the seaweed. Miss Madden waved

There was once a giant named Jack Doherty who lived in Killourt. This man had no cows or horses and had no farmyard manure and so had to put out seaweed for his piece of land.
He used to carry it in a creel to the highwater and dry it there.
In one of the gulfs that he used to carry the seaweed from was a big rock which always marred him filling it. One day Jack got angry because he had to go round the rock to get the seaweed. He lifted the rock which was about 8 ton and left a gulf which is known yet as Jack Doherty's gulf.

The people long ago used gather a lot of seaweed because they used it for mostly everything.They used it as manure for the land - and long ago the people used give it to their horses and cattle to eat. They used it as food for themselves also.In the time of the famine when the people were very poor and they had not enough of money to buy food for themselves they used eat seaweed.They used first pick the soft part of the seaweeds and boil it in pots. They used put very little water in it. They used leave it boil well and it used get thick like porridge.Then they used take it off the fire and eat it our of enamel plates. It was also very good for cold or cough. One day three women and a little girl set out from Castleisland to come to Keel to get something to eat along the strand. After three days they came to Boreen Ladarac and they went to the strand.They brought seaweed they boiled the the seaweed over a little fire they made and the little girl would not eat it and one of the women said "Ate the let Mainín". One of the women died and was buried in the boreen

his mother used cut seaweed. She used go out to the rocks on the side of a horse swimming. The seaweed was cut from the rocks and was brought to the strand on a horse or in a boat. It is left there for a few days and then it is drawn home.
The potatoes are dug in the Autumn and the farmers place them in pits. Long ago the farmers used leave the potatoes in the pits all the year round.

About fourteen years ago a cousin of mine named Michael Kelleher saw a mermaid in Banna strand, as he was gathering seaweed. She was a lovely maiden with long golden hair and she was combing it. She was half a woman and half a fish. It is said that anyone who sees her would be drowned. This man had a narrow escape from drowning the same day as he was collecting the seaweed, as his horse was drowned and himself was nearly drowned.
Told to me by my mother Mrs. Patrick Sheehry Ballyduff

up against the Kileen wall. Johnny Healy was watching him, and he made up his mind to get the seaweed for himself by hook or by crook. He went into the Kileen and reached down over the wall and took off Flanagan's cap. Jack looked round thinking 'twas a gust of wind that carried it away. Then Johnny dropped a few pieces of earth down on Jack's head. Jack thought 'twas all the dead people in the Kileen that were after him. He ran home as fast as his legs could carry him, and Johnny got all the seaweed again.

it came to Youghal: others say 'twas a priest named Boyle who brought them.
People make "stampy" of potatoes also big potatoes called "conops" and small potatoes are called "cnocáns". Seaweed is very good for potatoes. Long ago the people used be gathering the seaweed every night and day and even on Sunday after mass, but now this custom is stopped. Seldom people draw sea-weed now especially during the night or on Sundays. Potatoes are splendid food eaten with bacon and white cabbage. Starch is also good

One night about thirty years ago a man was going to the strand for seaweed. It was about twelve o'clock in the night. When he was about half-way to the strand he saw a ghost on the side of the road in the form of a sheep. The horse wanted to turn back in spite of him. He hit him a crack of the whip and fortunately he passed it. He continued his journey and when he was going down to the strand he saw the same object again near the ditch. He succeeded in making the horse pass it again He filled the load of seaweed and came home. He did not take much notice of the ghost. A few nights afterwards he was filling his pipe near the fire when a woman and a child

There is a man in Camp whose name is Tom Deane. He has a great record for playing funny tricks. Every night he used to go to the strand for seaweed. One night when he arrived there he saw that there was very little seaweed. He knew that if all the other neighbours came he would get very little. He thought of a plan. He left his car on the strand and came along the road until he came to a churchyard by the roadside. He went inside the wall and stayed there until he heard the other cars coming. It was then about one o'clock and he began an "ologón". The cars came on and when they heard the "caoineadh" they turned and ran home as fast as they

One day a man from Camp went to the strand for a load of seaweed and the mermaid appeared to him sitting on a rock and was combing her

When it is going to rain the seaweed gets damp. The seagulls come inland when there is going to be a storm.

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Simon Elliot Farmer (40 years
Longfield, Lettermacaward
Na Prátaí ;- "The Spring Work"
The land is dug with spades. Then the drills are opened. It is used to be all ridges in this part and now it is only very rarely that ridges are to be seen. The drills are made with the shovel. The spades are bought in the shop.
The men cut the potatoes, that are for seed. They take care to leave eyes in the pieces. They are put into creels when they are cut and are left standing until they are dry. The refuse parts of the potatoes are boiled for the fowl.
The potatoes for planting are carried out in the creels. The splits (they) are placed between every two drills leaving about a foot of space between each two cuts. The people say they are planting. Then a man covers them with the shovel taking the clay of the sides of the drills. Nothing more takes place until they are about a fortnight set. They then either put manure or seaweed on the top of the potatoes. The manure or seaweed is carted to both ends of the drills and then it is carried in creels through the drills, and it is left at suitable distances for spreading. Some spread it evenly on the top of the potatoes with qraips and others with their hands. I understand that the seaweed is always spread with the hands. If seaweed is put on nothing more is done until the plants come up through it as if it was covered immediately the potatoes would melt. The manure is covered immediately with the shovel. When the plants are up a couple of inches above the ground more clay is shovelled up on the two sides of the drill out of the shough.