School: Na Hárda (Ardfield), Clanna Caoilte (roll number 1267)
- Location:
- Ardfield, Co. Cork
- Teacher: Caitlín, Bean Uí Ghrífín
Archival Reference
The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0317, Page 045
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- Old TradesLong ago the people had a lot of old trades. For ploughing they used a timber plough with a long iron sock. When they used be reaping the corn they used a hook and nowadays they have machines reapers and binders. And for to thresh the corn they used a flail. And they had their own clothes made from the wool of the sheep and from the flax which they grew in their own country. They had no furze machines and a furze spade they used for bruising it. They used leave buttermilk in pans and shim it with a timber spoon after a few days. Then they put the cream in cradles made of goats skin they hung it in a frame and rocked it until the cream of the milk becomes butter.(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Johanna O' Sullivan
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Farran, Co. Cork
