School: Robinstown (roll number 9039)
- Location:
- Baile Roibín, Co. na Mí
- Teacher: Teresa Coyne
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- A flail was the only thing the people had for threshing corn long ago. It consisted of a long stick called a handstaff and a small sally stick called a bokeen was tied to it with a piece of eelskin called a míglen. A piece of leather was put on the end of the handstaff and a piece of the end of the bokeen to tie on the miglin, it was called a cauben. A heap of rubbish of straw was put under the grain. It was usualy threshed in a shed with a good floor in it.
- Collector
- Dermot Mac Kenna
- Gender
- Male