School: Séipéal na Carraige (roll number 5478)
- Location:
- Rockchapel, Co. Cork
- Teacher: Donncha Ó Géibheannaigh
Open data
Available under Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)
- XML School: Séipéal na Carraige
- XML Page 202
- XML “Poaching Salmon in the Close Season”
- XML “Torching”
Note: We will soon deprecate our XML Application Programming Interface and a new, comprehensive JSON API will be made available. Keep an eye on our website for further details.
On this page
- You are not logged in, but you are welcome to contribute a transcription anonymously. In this case, your IP address will be stored in the interest of quality control.By clicking the save button you agree that your contribution will be available under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License and that a link to dúchas.ie is sufficient as attribution.
- Collector
- Maggie Stack
- Gender
- Female
- Informant
- Tim Murphy
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Meennaraheeny, Co. Cork
- In the dark winter nights, the young men of this district, sometimes go out and kill birds in the trees.
They get a sod of turf, soak it in parafin oil and stick it on the prongs of a two prong pike. They also take a long flat stick.They go to a ditch that is well covered with furzes. On reaching the ditch they put a match to the sod of turf, it blazes up. This is called(continues on next page)