1. Land division and allocation |
(a) Specific portions or allotments into which arable land is divided |
iomaire | rig. |
clasidh | hollow between rigs. |
clar | a division of land about 3 rigs in width used when farm was held separately between two tenants. |
Rotation of crop |
shiol feer (f) | lea corn. |
groond-buntata | potato land. |
shiol fearan dearg (f) | red land corn. |
feur | hay (grass). |
corkey (f) | oats. |
feurachag | pasture. |
(b) Various types of arable land |
an dreel (f) | potatoes in drill. |
an giada (f) | potatoes in lazy bed. |
garag | plot or garden. |
paàrk (f) | field. |
paàrk mhòr | big field. |
groond gan bhar | fallow ground or ground without crop. |
groond trocha | ploughed land. |
lakin | land between croft and hill. |
eint | lease. |
clàr | word for divisions of land held separately between two tenants. |
(c) Actual dividing and allocating of land, e.g. casting lots |
(d) Land owned or held under leases of various duration |
croit | croft. |
fearann | farm. |
iond | lease. |
2. Harness of a horse |
(a) The harness of a horse as used in the performance of different tasks |
For carting: |
braìdh | collar. |
sraher (f) | saddle. |
brekish (f) | britches. |
| blinders. |
For ploughing: |
braìdh | collar. |
braidh-maidje | wooden hems [sic]. |
tooga | chains. |
grailikin (f) | plough trees. |
Harrowing: |
cliadhan | harrows. |
cliag | harrowing in field. |
(b) Different parts of the harness for carting |
(c) Different parts of the harness for ploughing or harrowing |
3. Carts |
(a) The common farm-yard cart |
“cartch” | the farm yard cart. |
feun | the farm yard cart. [NOTES: ‘feun’ added in pencil.] |
cartch monaidh | cart for use in taking home peats, “creel”. |
[couping cart] | (No couping carts in Arran.) |
(b) Different parts of a cart |
1. Body |
2. Trams |
3. Wheel and axle |
an roth | wheel. |
ashery | axle. |
iomlac | nave. |
4. Decorations |
Colour: |
doan | brown. |
gorham | green. |
(c) Other words associated with carting |
4. The plough |
(a) Different kinds of ploughs |
beartch èiran | iron plough. |
seisrigh | a pair of horses. Two horses for ploughing in light soil. |
(b) Parts of a plough in detail |
reest | mould board. |
coutar | coltair. |
5. Harrows and swingle trees |
(a) Different types of harrows |
cliathan | harrows. |
grailaiken | swingle trees. |
(b) Swingle trees |
na toughachan | chains. |
6. Spring work |
(a) Fertilisers and fertilising |
1. Fertilisers |
feamaire | sea-weed. |
“seol mara” | sea weed cut off the rocks. |
eanyar | farm yard manure. |
2. The actual work performed, e.g. transporting seaweed/manure to field |
kartach feumari (f) | carting seaweed. |
kartach eïnar (f) | carting farmyard manure. |
3. Implements used for lifting, carrying and spreading manure or seaweed |
gràpa cròm | graip for pulling dung out of cart. |
bhara-roth | wheelbarrow. [NOTES: ‘th’ added in pencil.] |
(b) Turning and tilling the soil |
1. Implements used for turning or tilling the soil |
beartch | plough. |
cleahan | harrows. |
2. Parts of the implements used |
3. Words used in connection with tilling the soil, e.g. digging |
gaida | lazy bed. |
breashach | first furrow. |
(c) Seed planting |
1. Names of seeds planted and words used for sowing or planting these |
cuir corka | sowing corn. |
cuir buntata | planting potatoes [NOTES: originally ‘phuntata’, corrected in pencil.] |
cnap | single potato. [NOTES: the last item added in pencil.] |
2. Names of any special sack, basket etc. used for carrying seed when sowing or planting |
am bràt | apron for plating potatoes. |
3. Names of any special implement used for planting |
7. Summer work |
(a) Cleaning and weeding potatoes |
gartlan | weeding. |
(b) Thinning and weeding other crops |
tennach (f) | thinning turnips. |
8. Autumn work |
(a) Hay making |
1. The implement used for (a) cutting (b) raking and turning (c) lifting and stacking |
coran | sickle. |
speal | scythe. |
clach speal | sharpener. |
2. Name the parts of the implements mentioned |
coran | reaping hook. |
3. Various stages of hay-making |
(b) Corn cutting and securing |
1. Implements used for cutting, raking, binding, lifting into stacks etc. |
speal (f) | implement for cutting corn or hay. |
buain (f) | cutting corn or hay. |
keal an skuab (f) | binding the sheaf. |
cuir-a steach (ans) an eilan (f) | [sic] taking in to stackyard. |
2. Bands (for tying corn), sheaves, stooks etc. |
adag | stook. 6 sheaves for redland corn, 8 sheaves for lea corn. |
3. Stack making (in yard) |
moulin | stack. |
roapin | ropes. |
touah | thatch. |
soogan | heather and/or straw ropes. |
4. Methods of carrying or transporting corn from field to cornyard |
cur is stach | carting in corn. |
(c) Potato lifting and storing |
1. Implements |
claioch lei graipa (f) | digging with graips. |
2. Sack, creel, barrow etc. used for carrying potatoes in field and to steading |
bascaid (f) | basket. |
caiteag | basket. [NOTES: ‘caiteag’ added in pencil.] |
3. Where potatoes are kept or stored |
f. | [gender?] cheevitch [?] for covering potatoes. |
4. Potato diseases |
(d) Other crops (Lifting and storing) |
1. Implements used for lifting |
2. How and where crop is stored |
3. Diseases/insects which attack the particular crop(s) |
9. Winter work |
(a) Land drainage |
1. Drains, ditches etc. |
dig (jeek) (f) | ditch. |
2. Implements used |
sluasid cas fada (f) | long shafted shovel. |
(b) Potato cutting for seed |
1. Instruments used |
2. Different kinds of potatoes |
(c) Corn threshing |
1. Implements used |
f suisead buailtean | [gender?] flail. |
dais | heaps of sheaves. |
2. Threshing |
boidenach | battleing [sic] straw. [NOTES: this item added in pencil.] |
(d) Grain winnowing |
1. Devices used |
2. How constructed and materials used. Winnowing. |
10. Permanent structures/buildings for storing crops |
(a) Stack-yard |
f iolainn | [gender?] stack-yard. |
iolann | barn yard. |
(b) Barn and parts of a barn |
sabhal | barn. |
11. Modern implements and machines |