School: Maoilinn (B.), Áth Treasna
- Location:
- Meelin, Co. Cork
- Teacher: Diarmuid de Brún
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0350, Page 122
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- (continued from previous page)In measuring stones the term ton is applied. A ton of stones is five feet long, four feet wide and one foot high. (5'x4'x1').
A ton of broken stones is twenty feet long, one foot wide and one foot high. (20'x1'x1')In measuring land, fields, and especially ridges of potatoes, drills of turnips, mangolds etc the spade is used. 'That field is 80 spades'. 'There are 60 spades in those drills'. These are words used to describe the lengths of the field, drills etc.
A spade is five feet three inches in length (5'-3").
In practice it is the distance of two ordinary steps (not long) taken by a man.
The Irish Acre is always used in area and the Irish Mile in distances.A Collop of sheep and a collop of geese. One cow is supposed to eat as much as six sheep. One sheep is supposed to eat as much as three geese.
Therefore one cow eats the same as six sheep or eighteen geese.
Six sheep in a collop of sheep and eighteen geese in a collop of geese.(continues on next page)
- Informant
- Florence Angland
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Meelin, Co. Cork
- Informant
- Jeremiah O' Keeffe
- Gender
- Male
- Occupation
- Quarryman
- Address
- Meelin, Co. Cork
- Informant
- John P. Browne
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Meelin, Co. Cork
