History on the Farm

gozunda · 20-11-2020 1:07am

I've traced the names of a couple of townlands here and elsewhere and came across literally dozens of different spellings for the same place over the years. Some you'd barely recognise compared to modern spellings. I'll try and find the last list I complied - it's here somewhere.

blue5000 · 27-11-2020 10:17am

NcdJd wrote: »

I spent hours last night looking at them maps. Gas the way the spellings are slightly different for place names on the older maps to now.

Ya noticed that too, there's one near here and the locals still pronounce it the way it was spelt almost 200 years ago.

Tig98 · 25-12-2020 11:34am

Anyone have a notion about this? Seems like its two different pieces of rock fused together.

ganmo · 25-12-2020 1:01pm

Tig98 wrote: »

Anyone have a notion about this? Seems like its two different pieces of rock fused together.

Is it rock or metal? It's hardly a type of rivet

Bog Man 1 · 25-12-2020 1:07pm

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Local Grand Jury (forerunners of Co. Councils) were empowered to raise money by means of county rates (also known as cess) to build new roads etc. The Grand Jury records of who built what roads and how the money was raised from landowners where new roads were being built or old ones repaired are available in local council archives afaik

Apparently its from these grand juries - that some wag coined the phrase 'ah sure it'll be grand' after some of the shenanigans and skullduggery that the various local grand juries got up. At least that was the usual joke about them ...

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Local Grand Jury levied the rates for Malicious Damages on sections of the County where the perpetrators came from . A barn burned and the rates were levied on a predominantly Catholic Townland . My ancestor happened to own most of the small Townland so he banned the Hunt from entering . The Hunt was banned for years until my Grandfather inherited it in 1930 .

Tig98 · 25-12-2020 2:49pm

ganmo wrote: »

Is it rock or metal? It's hardly a type of rivet

Fairly sure both pieces are rock, the "handle part" seems like a claylike material and the head of it is hard rock. A rooting bull unearthed it a few years back, it was in a field that once contained a bit of a crannog so I held onto it

Nekarsulm · 25-12-2020 2:56pm

Hardly some kind of fossilised bone? Or semi-fossilised?
Hard to know without see in person.

NcdJd · 30-12-2020 1:05pm

I take it this is off an electricity pole ? Heavy and ceramic. Found it in a ditch this morning. Will add to my expanding pile of stuff i might or might not have a use for at some point in the future

roosky · 29-01-2021 1:25pm

Looking at the maps on osi website last night and it allows you to go back to maps from 1800’s......first off they are amazingly accurate and line up with Satellite images from today,

So I found a strange building called a pleasure house .....did anyone find one of these before or is it what I think it is !

The Continental Op · 29-01-2021 1:29pm

roosky wrote: »

Looking at the maps on osi website last night and it allows you to go back to maps from 1800’s......first off they are amazingly accurate and line up with Satellite images from today,

So I found a strange building called a pleasure house .....did anyone find one of these before or is it what I think it is !

I think your imagination is going a bit far

In Victorian times big house would have had a pleasure garden, so I suspect a pleasure house was like a tea house or garden shelter.

Edit> Pleasure gardens was also used to describe gardens for the public

Donald Trump · 29-01-2021 2:17pm

NcdJd wrote: »

I take it this is off an electricity pole ? Heavy and ceramic. Found it in a ditch this morning. Will add to my expanding pile of stuff i might or might not have a use for at some point in the future

Yeah, I've seen very similar on ESB poles.

Danzy · 29-01-2021 7:54pm

NcdJd wrote: »

I take it this is off an electricity pole ? Heavy and ceramic. Found it in a ditch this morning. Will add to my expanding pile of stuff i might or might not have a use for at some point in the future

Have several of them used here, fantastic insulators on corner posts.

NcdJd · 03-02-2021 6:23pm

Just found a clay pipe. M O'connor, Taghmon, Wexford. Another one for my collection.

Say my name · 03-02-2021 8:22pm

NcdJd wrote: »

Just found a clay pipe. M O'connor, Taghmon, Wexford. Another one for my collection.

To add to that. Taghmon would be known for the O Connor surname.
In the politest way possible but truthfully many travelled the country by barreltop carriage.

The Continental Op · 03-02-2021 8:27pm

Say my name wrote: »

To add to that. Taghmon would be known for the O Connor surname.
In the politest way possible but truthfully many travelled the country by barreltop carriage.

When I lived nearby it was sometimes referred to as Tinker Town so the Connor surname would fit

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NcdJd · 03-02-2021 8:27pm

Say my name wrote: »

To add to that. Taghmon would be known for the O Connor surname.
In the politest way possible but truthfully many travelled the country by barreltop carriage.

Usually what I do is look up the tobacconist and and can get an idea when the pipe was made and the place that made it. Couldn't find anything on this one so ya could be right !

I have pipes from the 19th century and sometimes when I take the muck out of them there is still a bit of burnt tobacco in them.

Say my name · 03-02-2021 8:32pm

The Continental Op wrote: »

When I lived nearby it was sometimes referred to as Tinker Town so the Connor surname would fit .

I think everyone around called it that.

Some travellers, well the old crowd would know every bend in the road and stream in the country.

Silverdream · 16-01-2023 6:59pm

Got freesat channels in for the Christmas. Found an interesting program on one of them odd channels 5select. War time farm was on yesterday afternoon, very interesting. It is a historic reenactment of farming in Britain during the war. A lot of the stuff must have been similar here too. They even made bread from Silage at one stage!

Odelay · 16-01-2023 8:25pm

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120116786#Comment_120116786

Thanks for that. Here it is on youtube.

Wartime Farm Part 1 of 8 - Bing video

Silverdream · 16-01-2023 8:56pm

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120117105#Comment_120117105

I'll watch it again next Sunday lol, it's the only time I seem to get access to the TV

I think its gas the way they do the reenactments. The Truck running from Coal Gas looked a mad yolk. There was defiantly a lot more manual work on the farm back then even with the mechanisation they had.