School: Cill Cruim / Killocrim (roll number 17072)
- Location:
- Cill Átha Chroim, Co. Chiarraí
- Teacher: Micheál Óg Ó Catháin
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- This is very suitable weather for drawing home the turf. The turf is always cut in the month of March, it is left in the bog to dry until August. Then the farmers draw it home.
We generally use a donkey to draw the turf home We fill the rail from the bank and clamp it and then draw it home. The passages are very bad so we could not carry a horse up to the turf.
When we have all the turf home we clamp it in a rick, Then we thatch it with rushes.
- Collector
- Eilís Nic Mhuiris
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Cill Átha Chroim, Co. Chiarraí
