I’d have said a creel too.
Would it bear any link to the oft used expression I used to hear auld boys roar at local south east Clare hurling derbies - “creel the cunt”
3 Likes
A tea chest.
1 Like
A panniers or Pardog’s as gaeilge
2 Likes
In Galway Creels were the sides of a cart/trailer. Limerick and Kerry they were those basket yokes. A mighty word that can describe nearly anything, including the jab of the handle of the hurl into the lower ribs.
2 Likes
He asked about its primary use. You don’t seriously think any of his countymen would have the wit to nail together a wooden box ?
And its name. Just a wooden box to me. But there you go.
I call the mesh extensions on a builders trailer creel’s still
It was verbalised in parts of Galway too. I remember a ref dishing out a yellow card to me in an underage game and he told me I had “creeled” a young fella.
@Massey has this one, we’d call them pardógs. They’re different to creels (used mainly in the bog). The trick with pardógs was to pull both sides simultaneously to keep the weight on the ass level as the dung dropped. Many’s the lad however saw the dung spill into the wellington’s.
And then you have those half-arsed bollixes ruminating about “the good old days”…Grrrrr.
Paddy has a strange relationship with hardship and times past.
5 Likes
1 Like
They’re only call the good old days by fellas who never sweated on a site , a bog , down a hole in London etc, stood outside the crown in cricklewood waiting in hope of getting a shift etc
5 Likes
Stay safe calving lads……
RIP
1 Like
Poor bastard. Probably felt he had a great way with the cows and never thought it would happen to him. You can’t take a chance with them, we got lucky a few years back but it would shake you. They’d have you impaled in seconds.
You know yourself you’d get complacent with cattle especially quiet ones…then Bang your on the flat of your back.
1 Like
Be careful out there lads.