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School: Cluain Mór (1), Baile an Droichid

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Clonmore, Co. Carlow
Teacher:
Séamus Ó Laochdha
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0909, Page 202

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  1. Taking Profit of Butter - The Quicken Gad (continued)

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    disposed persons could take their profit, that is, their butter by means of pishrogues and as a preventative they used what was known as the quicken gad.
    The person who wanted a quicken gad had to get out of bed very early on the fist morning of May and search for a long light sapling of quicken; bring it home without anyone seeing him, peel off the bark and plait the sapling into a ring to fit the churn ash handle.
    This was put on the dash handle at every churning and was proof against all pishroges for the year"
    Transcribed by a member of our volunteer transcription project.
    History Edit
    Topics
    1. activities
      1. economic activities
        1. agriculture (~2,659)
    Language
    English
    Informant
    Thomas Donnelly
    Gender
    Male
    Age
    64
    Occupation
    Farmer
    Address
    Knockatomcoyle, Co. Wicklow