Read about traditional Irish farming methods, including rearing livestock, growing crops and using tools. Potatoes were the main vegetable crop and they are easily grown even on poor soil. On small farms they were often grown in spade-made cultivation ridges, sometimes called ‘lazy beds’.

Prehistoric farming has been revealed at Céide, near Ballycastle,Co.Mayo,where Ireland’s earliest agricultural landscape has been preserved beneath the blanket peat for over 5,000 years. Field walls and occasional houses, huts and stock enclosures have been recorded.However, the most visible signs of ancient farming on the Irish

2025年1月10日 · Learn about the history of Irish farming, and find out how it was done in days gone by. Livestock, cultivation of the land, vintage equipment. Find out all about the work done in the fields in previous centuries! Traditional Irish farmhouses that pay tribute to …

Farm Implements.—Most of the common implements employed in farm-work at the present day were used by the ancient Irish, though no doubt they were somewhat different in make. The use of the plough was universal. The old word for it was arathar [arraher], but it is now called céchta [kaighta], which is also an ancient word. Several of the ...

2021年10月1日 · Our farming videos look back to a time in Ireland’s past when farming was the main occupation in the countryside, to a time when farmers used horses to till the land and harvest their crops. We re-create the farming years of the 1920’s through to the 1960’s showing the growing of popular crops back then such as oats, barley, potatoes and ...

This collection is rich in the hand tools representative of farming on small subsistence farms. It also features horse-drawn agricultural machinery, some tractor-drawn machinery, and four tractors.

What was the most common implement on the Irish farm? It depends on the farm, but the spade was the single most common implement and existed on the smallest farm. In Ireland there was great local variety in spades, which were particularly adapted to potato cultivation and the making of cultivation ridges.

2020年5月25日 · With a reconstructed village and traditional farmhouses, Ulster Folk Museum is one of the greatest of Ireland’s folk and heritage parks, populated by reenactors and farm animals. Ulster Folk Museum is only a short train ride from Belfast.

In the 1900s a way of farming life developed in the Irish countryside. This way of life remained the same until the 1960s. At this time many farmers produced more than enough food to feed their own families. The rest of the produce was brought for sale to the nearest market town. This man was travelling to the local market on a donkey.

" We are a group of five farmers from the Inishowen Peninsula in Co. Donegal, Ireland, who have come up with a novel way to raise funds to provide a local facility for mentally challenged adults." " Using only horses and traditional farm implements, we ploughed a field, prepared the ground and sowed the seed to produce a field of oats.