School: Mullinahone (C.) (roll number 15363)
- Location:
- Mullinahone, Co. Tipperary
- Teacher: Máire Ní Shéaghdha
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0560, Page 306
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- (continued from previous page)It has two blades, horizontal and vertical.
- Used for twisting hay when making sugans or ropes. The old type was a forked stick or gawlóg (gabhlóg). The one most commonly used now consists of a curved wire which revolves in a timber handle. As it revolves it twists hay. Two people are required to make sugans - one to draw out the hay from the hay rick and the other to twist the hay.
- Blade is long and thin about 1" wide.
