School: The Downs (roll number 8875)
- Location:
- Na Dúnta, Co. na hIarmhí
- Teacher: S. Molloy
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0730, Page 216
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- Oats-making.
Long ago there were no machines out as there are now and people had to work very hard with their crops.
Oats is a very hard crop to save and farmers who sow it, do their very best to save it, and from weeds destroying it. In the end of Summer when the oats is ripe, the farmer employ's many men to help him to cut it, and also several men to bind it.
Then the oats is cut with very sharp instruments called scythes, and the other men that are employed bind the oats into small bundles and leave them in rows on the ground.
These bundles are called sheafs.
This is continued until all the oats is cut and binded.
Then they are made into sticks with ten sheafs in the stuck every time. Then the oats is left in the stucks for about two weeks and then they are made into big stacks.
Then the oats is left in stacks till whenever the farmer gets it thrashed. Then when its thrashed the farmer(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Annie Cleary
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Na Dúnta, Co. na hIarmhí
- Informant
- Patrick Cleary
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 60
- Address
- Na Dúnta, Co. na hIarmhí
