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Photograph of Jean Ritchie watching a man preparing for strawboys in a barn.
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Collection Ritchie Pickow
Title Photograph of Jean Ritchie watching a man preparing for strawboys in a barn.
Description Photograph of Jean Ritchie watching a man preparing for strawboys in a barn at Lios Buí, Kilnamartry, Macroom, Co Cork. Jean stands to the left holding a straw arrangement. She wears a coat with her hood up. She is turned towards the man who is tying sheaves of straw along a length of twine. He wears a jacket and a flat cap. The twine in hung across like a washing line. Part of a cart is tipped up in the right of the photo. Straw is piled up against the wall in the background.
Date 01/01/1952
Date Issued 01/07/2022
Resource Type Still image
Archival Record Id p105304.jpg
Publisher University of Galway
Extent 60x60mm
Topic Straw,Stacks (Hay,grain,etc.),Carriages and carts,Ritchie,Jean,Musicians,Irish,Caps (Headgear)
Geographic Kilnamartery (Ireland : Parish),Macroom (Ireland),Cork (Ireland : County)
Temporal Nineteen fifties,Twentieth century
Genre Black and white
Creator / Author Name George Pickow