School: An Ghráinseach, Cluain Meala (roll number 7982)
- Location:
- Grange, Co. Tipperary
- Teacher: Séamus Ó Maolchathaigh
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- [Drawing]I often saw furze chopper for horses etc. by a chaff-cutting machine in Croan, Parish of Newcastle, over 40 years ago.
This is how I saw furze chopped by a man who had no machine.
A kind of box about 2 feet square made of larch poles about 2 inches in diameter and undressed was sunk in the ground and flush with the surface. It was about 1 foot in depth. The young furze was packed into this and chopped by a knife called a furze knife.Irish Terms
Furze knife: Scian aitinn
Chopping furze: Ag brughadh aitinn.
The "box": An t-umar.
- Collector
- Séamus Ó Maolchathaigh
- Gender
- Male
- Occupation
- Múinteoir
