generalist

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help-last one and have spent hours in chambers etc
1d in ireland a large barrel of ropes of straw for holding grain 9 S?E?G?G?E
thanks

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An Fhoir : A Straw-Rope Granary

A. T. Lucas

IN a few scattered districts of the western part of the county of Cork
there is, or was till recently, in use a small outdoor granary made of
straw rope which has all the appearance of being of very ancient
descent. The writer knows no account of it in English published sources
and but a single short description in Irish. It has, apparently, no English
name. In the Enniskeen and Ballineen districts it was known as a siogog
(/i : 'go : g); 1 farther west in the neighbourhood of Ballingeary it was
called a foir (fo : r'); about Macroom both foirin (a diminutive oifoir) and
siogog were applied indiscriminately to it; in the Dunmanway area siogog
and yet another alternative term, doimhineog (dai'n'o : g) were used, while
from the district of Bantry in the south the name slogan (/i : g'a : n) has
been recorded. Outside west Cork there is, as far as is at present known,
either in the printed literature or in the archives of the Irish Folklore
Commission, only one single record of it: in the parish of Knockane, west
of Killarney, in County Kerry, where, it would seem, the very generalized
term sop (sAp) — literally, 'a wisp' — was applied to it. Its known distribu-
tion is, therefore, confined to the south-west corner of the country and
the writer is not aware of any reference to it, either in Irish or English,
earlier than this century. Experience of other aspects of Irish folk life
shows, however, that this latter fact is an index of the capriciousness of
our sources rather than of the recent origin of the object itself.

[yellow11]

many thanks,although i still can't get anything to fit my letters