School: Skerries, Athy (roll number 10975)
- Location:
- Sceithrí Thuaidh, Co. Chill Dara
- Teacher: E. Tansey
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0781, Page 265
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- A spit is a thing shaped like a wheel. It has a rim and spokes like a wheel and is made of iron. People used it long ago for roasting meat. There is a hole in the centre of it. There is a screw in the hole and a chain out of it to hang it over the fire. You would have to give it a push round to keep it turning. They used to put a plate under it to catch the grace.
It is a foot in diameter.
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We never used it but mother told me about it. I found it in my own garden a year ago.
- Collector
- Christopher Heffernan
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Baile an Fhóntaigh Íochtarach, Co. Chill Dara
