School: Gleann Gabhna, Tulach an Iarainn

Location:
Glengoura Lower, Co. Cork
Teacher:
Máire Ní Dhubhshláinghe
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0380, Page 224

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  1. The old people had many farming instruments which are at all like the ones now.
    The ploughs which they had were made of timber and there were no wheels on them. Now it was very hard to keep these ploughs on the ground and it was how the old people kept them in it was there was one man leaning on it and the other having the horse's tail caught and standing on the top of the plough and another man having a hold of the horse's head.
    Now the people had a funny way of threshing the corn and this is the way they did it. First of all one
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    Transcribed by a member of our volunteer transcription project.
    Language
    English
    Collector
    Nora Mc Grath
    Gender
    Female
    Informant
    Michael Mc Grath
    Relation
    Parent
    Gender
    Male
    Address
    Ballycullane, Co. Cork