
B028.32.00002
Lapping hay.
Lapping hay.
1939
Mud turf.
1939
Making “mud” turf.
1939
Making mud turf.
1939
Fear ag baint an fhéir (saving hay).
Harvest: Man and woman and harvest.
1997
Crops: Stooks of oats, containing up to 20 sheaves, were carried by pony or ass to the haggard and made up into stacks of between 50 and 60 stooks. The stack rested on a circle of tree branches and stones about 1.50m in diameter and was built to a height of almost 3m. Furze (whin) thorns and, on occasion, sheep dip were added to the foundation to discourage rats. The stack was thatched with hay and rushes and roped with the eave of its conical top projecting about 150mm beyond the base.
1946
Field crops: Oats growing in ridges, Glenmore, Co. Kerry.
1935
Aughinish.
Seaweed gathering.
Seaweed gathering.
Seaweed gathering.
Shore-gathering : Gathering seaweed.
Shore-gathering : Gathering seaweed.
Shore -gathering : Gathering seaweed.
Shore -gathering : Gathering seaweed.
Shore-gathering : Picking and bleaching carrigeen.
Shore -gathering : Picking and bleaching carrageen.
1959
Seaweed gathering: man using a seaweed rake/ráca feamainne, Inis Oírr.
1830
“The Kelp Gatherers", White Strand, Renvyle, Conamara; oil painting by Samuel Lover (1830) in National Folklore Collection.