Volume: CBÉ 0618 (Part 1)
- Date
- 1939
- Collector
- Locations
Archival Reference
The Main Manuscript Collection, Volume 0618, Page 023
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- The Hook peninsula on the S. Wexford coast is the remotest part of Wexford from town.
Before the advent of motor transport the people of the peninsula got great hardship getting their corn to town after threshing. It was all horse-drawn and the poor horses as well as the men were strangled getting it done.
The Hook corn was generally bought by Wexford corn buyers and the trek to Wexford with the car-loads of bags from the Hook was an annual adventure for those hardy people.
Sixteen to Twenty cars often went together and their passage through the various parishes as they wended their way slowly, up hill and damn hollow, was made easy by pleasant banter between themselves and the people they met along the road.
They set out together at about 10 in the morning, and reached Wexford with their loads about 7 or 7:30 the following morning, having travelled without all night. They delivered their corn, got a meal and a rest, and faced the return journey in good humour. Men and horses must have favoured a good rest on reaching home, having done almost 100 miles!
