The contributor remembers seeing fishermen camped at Cornaig...

Original Track ID

SA1971.093

Original Tape ID

SA1971.093

Summary

The contributor remembers seeing fishermen camped at Cornaig and a farmer buying half a ton of salted fish.

When the contributor was a boy he saw fishermen [from the east coast] who had little thatched huts, which they called tents, to stay in. They brought the fish ashore and dried it on the rocks. A farmer in Barrapoll, for whom the contributor's father worked, bought half a ton of salted fish. It was to be shared out at the two farms his brother, a publican in Greenock, had in Mull. It was cheaper than buying it in Glasgow. It was ling.

Item Location

Language

English

Genre

Information

Collection

SoSS

Source Type

Reel to reel

Audio Quality

Good