School: Oileán Baoi (Dursey) (roll number 13138)
- Location:
- Dursey Island, Co. Cork
- Teacher: Eoghan Ó Súilleabháin
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0274, Page 135
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- (continued from previous page)before they’d be full up. But it was looking as if they wouldn’t make it and they had their heads lost in the excitement. At last, when they were nearly toppling over one of the men on the oars jumped down across the TAFTS and stuck his geansí in the hole. Only for he having that much presence of mind they would all have certainly been lost.
They pulled ashore and bailed her out again and put on the spoil. They started off once more for the Head and if they did the light kept with them inside them on the land. It moved all along west with them and rested at the Head where they were shooting their pots. None of them could making anything of it.
The SPOIL is the little plug, usually a bit of a net cork, they stick into the little hole near the stern of the boat. In some of the boats, as in this one, there used be a very big hole and it would nearly take a whole cork to fill them.
- Collector
- James Dudley
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Kilmichael, Co. Cork
