Scoil: Barradubh (Sixmilebridge)

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1. Badgering (ar lean)

   

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   of now-a-days. The badger lives in a burrow and is commoner in the mountains then in the lowlands. When in the lowlands he makes his own of a rabbit burrow which he enlarges. When meat was scarce in the last century badgers were eaten and when properly cured was boiled with cabbage to which it gave the same flavour as bacon. Even after it was no longer eaten it used to be boiled for the sake of flavouring the cabbage.

   The sport was called "badgering" and started about November when what was known as the Badger Moon appeared. The badger comes out after nightfall and travels to the fields where he roots down into the earth for what are called "Clocharachán praties". These are like potatoes but are only about the size of a large marble. In the Summer they throw up a stalk of six or seven inches which flowers and are then more or less tasteless. But in winter they are very sweet and school boys dig them up and eat them.

   
   When the badger-moon appeared in the sky a hunting party was organised. It was

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