School: Barradubh (Sixmilebridge)
- Location:
- An Barr Dubh, Co. Chiarraí
- Teacher: Dómhnall Ua Donnchadha
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- (continued from previous page)trout below the point where the dam is constructed.
Night Fishing:
During the winter when trout are in the streams they are "poached". A number of boys go together and they have one or more torches(called toarches) and each has a shovel with a short handle and cut straight across below the socket.
The "toarch" is made from a sod of turf soaked in paraffin oil and a pike stuck through it. If a long stream is to be fished one of parties has a bottle of paraffin and an old bag.
- The trout spawn in sand where the water not more than a few inches to half a foot deep. The scrape away the sand forming a saucer like bed into which a male and a female trout stretch side by side. While the female is laying her eggs she is constantly moving the lower part of her body to and from the male. He performs a similar movement and parts with a white liquid which fertilizes the eggs. They then cover the eggs with the sand they had piled up around the bed.
The bed is called a "scour"(continues on next page) - Collector
- Dómhnall Ua Donnchadha
- Gender
- Male
- Occupation
- Múinteoir
