Today.
In Tipperary.
Eimear Gallagher tweetz:
Roads very quiet on this morning’s walk. Passed by one tractor, one van, plus six ponies and carts.
Tag Archives: Sulky
Massive Sulk
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Last Sunday.
A bareback protest at the Ballinasloe Horse Fair, Ballinasloe, Co Galway, where access for sulkies has been restricted by the local council.
The two-wheeled horse drawn cart is mainly used in Ireland by members of the traveling community.
Via Hymany Films
Sandymount Strand, Sandymount, Dublin 4.
Ann Marie Boylan writes:
At lunchtime yesterday. FIVE of these went racing past. Gardai arrived soon after these were taken…
Update:
A ‘Ringsend Car’.
Bickerstaff writes:
The vehicles in your Sandymount Chase post reminded me of the original ‘Ringsend cars’ once used to transport passengers across the soggy mudflats of Dublin Bay – a stretch described by one visitor as ‘one of the most horrible stinks of filth I have ever encountered‘.
The cars were simply made and consisted of a frame formed with an axle between two wheels and a bench supported on two shafts slung between them. A bumpy ride!
Francis Elrington Ball, in his History of Dublin, records extremely competitive races by the car drivers on Sandymount strand on their days off.
Pic: South Dublin Libraries
Sulkiness at Crumlin, Dublin, yesterday.
(Thanks Sarah Barry)