School: Colmán, Fíodh Árd (roll number 14081)
- Location:
- Colman (Cramptmore), Co. Tipperary
- Teacher: Caitlín Ní Dhomhnaill
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0559, Page 198
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- (continued from previous page)gone by a good response would cut and acre of corn in a day.
Wheat was sown by hand in olden times. During the Crimean War it was very dear and scarce and the story is told locally that six and a half Irish acres of wheat were sown in a day by seven women. Each woman had a máilín of wheat round her neck and a skiver in her hand. As she walked along she made a hole in the ground cut with the skiver and dropped a few grains of wheat into it.
When the wheat was in stacks it was customary for the young girls of the district to go to the corn-field and gather all the stray ears of corn which remained on the ground. The tied them in small bundles or "basacáns" with a "gas" or a few long straws. Each girl brought home her "basacáns", threshed them with a Glail and sold the corn which she had collected. The money which she made was spent on clothing for himself.
- Informant
- Laurence Lee
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 35
- Address
- Redcity, Co. Tipperary
