Scoil: Cobh Labhráis (C.) (uimhir rolla 7453)

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1. Fishing

   

   Roinn Roinn Postáil

   Beare Island being surrounded by the sea has fishing as an important industry. In olden times much more fish were caught because the people spent day and night at sea. At that time they used fish off the rocks as well as in boats and would catch just as much. When fishing off the rocks a rod and line with a hook or two at the line's end were used. Those who fished in boats used go miles away and stay out for a few days without coming home. Our ancestors chiefly fished around Blackball and Pulleen because those two places were reckoned to be good fishing spots in Bantry Bay. They caught all kinds of fish - ling, hake, haddock, skate, mackerel etc and some of them were four or five feet long. They fished also by "spillers" by putting six score hooks on a line and each hook would be six feet apart. Lobsters were caught in the same way as they are nowadays by pots and bait inside in them. Whiting was got in the Bay and Harbour and Bream in places called ledges. Every morning at 5.30. the men would be

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   Teanga

   Béarla

   Bailitheoir

   Brigid Neill

   Inscne

   Baineann

   Faisnéiseoir

   Mr M. Neill

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   Fireann

   Aois

   58

   Gairm bheatha

   Farmer (Léirítear teidil na ngairmeacha i mBailiúchán na Scol sa bhunteanga inar cláraíodh iad)

   Seoladh

   Raerainn, Co. Chorcaí