School: Ferbane (Convent)
- Location:
- Ferbane, Co. Offaly
- Teacher: Sr Patrick
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0814, Page 054
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- (continued from previous page)If the turf is still very wet it is made into "footings." They consist of six or seven sods: Four sods on the bottom standing on end: Two placed on top of them and one big wet one on top.
After a while they are made into heaps called "stucks." About a load of turf is put in each stuck. Sometimes "windrows" are made of it. They are long heaps of turf about a foot and a half high.
If the bog is far off the farmer brings articles to cook food for himself such as: - a kettle, a teapot and a saucepan. He also brings tea, sugar, bread, butter, salt, eggs, milk, knives and spoons. The woman of the house puts all the provisions(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Mary Josephine Kenny
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Ferbane, Co. Offaly
