Carrowbrowne school was located in the village and townland of Carrowbrowne in the parish of Castlegar, county Galway.
The school closed down in 1941 and the teachers and pupils transferred to the newly constructed building of Scoil Naisúnta Cholmcille Naofa or St. Colmcille National School which is also known as Castlegar National School.
The image was kindly donated by Margaret O'Brien at the 'The Gathering' Castlegar school and racecourse events in May/June 2013. She herself appears in the photograph.
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Carrowbrowne school was located in the village and townland of Carrowbrowne in the parish of Castlegar, county Galway.
The school closed down in 1941 and the teachers and pupils transferred to the newly constructed building of Scoil Naisúnta Cholmcille Naofa or St. Colmcille National School which is also known as Castlegar National School.
The image was kindly donated by Margaret O'Brien at the 'The Gathering' Castlegar school and racecourse events in May/June 2013. She herself appears in the photograph.
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For millennia, the bogs of Ireland provided the only fuel available for the ordinary folk to heat their homes. The cuttings from the bogs were known as turf or peat. Each farmer in the 19th and 20th century had a section of a bog which he worked on during the spring.
After the cutting, the sods of turf were dried out on the bog by staking them in cone shaped mounds known in Irish as 'coirceog'.
The stacking was normally done by the children of the family.
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Curraghmore Bridge, Galway city-Headford Road, county Galway
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Harvest is the process of gathering mature crops from the fields. In Ireland, the crops were usually cereal grains such as barley and oats.
The cutting of the grain at harvest is known as Reaping which was undertaken using a hand scythe or horse drawn reaper.
The harvest marked the end of the growing season for grain.
It was the most labour intensive aspect of farming and involved all the family members. Furthermore, neighbours would help each other in turns take in the harvest on each farm. This community interaction was known in Ireland by the Irish word 'Meitheal',
It was the time of the year when those family members that had emigrated to the cities or to England for work, would take their holidays to return home to help in the harvest.
Traditionally, the men and children would work in the fields whilst the women would prepare the food of home made breads, butters, meats laid out on large tables in the farm years for the workers to enjoy. Beverages mainly of tea would be kept in big pots and drunk from big mugs.If the field was too far from the farm house, the food and drinks would be brought to them in enamel crockery.
The end of the harvest would be marked by a big social occasion such as a ceili dance in a barn or farm house. The event one of the social highlights of the year in rural Ireland.
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