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The Grufán and the Spade, Abandoned Famine Lazy Potato Beds, Kicrohane, West Cork.

The Grufán is a tool used in famine times to grub out plots from sods where a spade would not be suitable.  It is still used to batted down clods after ploughing.

West of Kilcrohane there are a number of exampled of lazy beds abandoned after the famine, never dug.  In 1841 the Munitervara Peninsula had a population of around 10,000, one of the most densely populated non urban areas in the world excluding bog, mountain and lake  There are around 1,00o now on the Peninsula.

Pre 1965 farming practices West Cork, Red Elephant and Epicure potatoes, working with the grufán, threshing with the steam engine, winnowng of wheat and oats, working in the bog.