Scoil: St Peter's, Phibsboro

Ar an leathanach seo

1. Mud Turf (ar lean)

   

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   (ar lean ón leathanach roimhe)

   cupped hands. When the turf had sufficiently hardened, usually often a period of ten or twelve days they were cut apart and placed on their ends in rows to dry. This process was known as "making Windrows". After another period of three or four days another arrangement was made to further the process of drying. Three sods of turf were arranged in tripod fashion surrounded by another turn in a horizontal position. After the lapse of week or so dry weather small clumps of turf were built and left as such until ready for carting home.

   
   Illustration (1)

   Turf in Windrows
   (First Stage in the process of drying

   
   Illustration (2)

   Section of "Baked" Mud Turf before actual cutting apart

   
   Note:- The "Meitheall" employed by the farmer on "mud-making" day is known in Co. Monaghan as a "Boon". The same term is applied to the workers who assemble for flax pulling.

   

   Tras-scríofa ag duine dár meitheal tras-scríbhneoirí deonacha.

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   Topaicí

   1. gníomhaíochtaí
      1. gníomhaíochtaí eacnamaíocha
         1. gnó agus ceird (~4,680)

   Teanga

   Béarla

   Bailitheoir

   Séamus Breathnach

   Inscne

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