School: Banahoe
- Location:
- Banagher, Co. Cavan
- Teacher: A. Mac an Bháird
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- (continued from previous page)served as a shaft. There was no harness for the horse except a Súgan (local) collar from which hay ropes were attached to hooks on the shafts. These hay ropes were the toughest and strongest that could be made. The hay was cut and saved at a particular time of the year and the ropes were more serviceable than straw ropes. The art of making fir ropes (bog fir) as practiced in Glencolumbkille, Co Donegal is unknown in this part of Co. Cavan. This Cár-Shleamhain was used before there were any public roads.
- In the year 1847 a Relief Scheme to aid those who suffered from the famine was begun in the form of road-making. A road was blocked out from Derrin to Ballinagh and the first thing done was to make ditches on each side of the proposed road-site. The road was never finished. The men who were employed were so weak and undernourished that they could do very little and in any(continues on next page)
