School: Baile Dháithí, Dunlavin
- Location:
- Davidstown, Co. Wicklow
- Teacher: Róisín Bhreathnach
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- In olden times there were no such things as mowing-machines, binders, harrows, iron-ploughs, potato-diggers or any farm implements. Instead of a mowing machine the people had what they called a reaping-hook.
They used go out into a field with a reaping-hook and cut four or five acres of wheat, oats or hay. They used "bet" on the man or woman who would be finished first.
Then came the scythe. The man who hired the men used give a prize to whoever was finished his or her share first. The best mower around Donard was Pat Nolan (R.I.P.) of Donard.
The old people used gather(continues on next page)
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- Tony Rogers
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