A loy is an early Irish spade with a long heavy handle made of ash, a narrow steel plate on the face and a single footrest. The word loy comes from the Irish word láí (Old Irish láige, Proto-Celtic * laginā), which means "spade". [1] . It was used for manual ploughing prior to and during the Great Famine. [2][3]

2020年5月27日 · From the Irish laí, meaning “spade,” the loy’s fall from grace had been a long time coming: In the mid-18th century, the familiar broad-bladed spade you can find today in every hardware store — and nearly every garage and garden shed in the U.S. — began to take over the loy’s traditional position as the main tool for hand tillage ...

Loy Association of Ireland. 542 likes. group of people all over Ireland interested in Loy Digging

The Loy Association of Ireland was founded on July 31st. 1992 in the County Hotel, Carrick-On-Shannon, Co. Leitrim. Who's aims are to foster this ancient craft which has almost become extinct. It is encouraging that an interest in it's revival is taking place.

The loy is an historic digging tool used to till soil. Although its use in farming has been superseded, it continues in use today as part of a heritage sport of loy digging, where competitors turn over a marked patch of ground using the traditional tool.

2024年5月15日 · It was the difficulty of working the wet drumlin soils of the hinterlands of Roscommon, Leitrim, Longford and Cavan that prompted the loy to be the spade of choice up to the 1950s and early 60s. In that part of the world, they sometimes yoked the loy to a donkey, using the heavy loy as a plough to break up the soil in the furrows.

The Loy Association was founded in 1992 with the aims to :- foster the tradition of using the loy to turn the sod. let people know the sort of spade that was used before the introduction of the factory spade in 1750. show young people and future generations how food was produced in the past.

2024年1月2日 · The loy was used primarily in the North Midlands of the Irish Republic, where the stony clay soil was heavy and wet with deep-rooted grass and lots of organic matter. The narrow blade cut through this tough soil relatively easily and the wedge-shaped bottom and sturdy handle gave the loy digger leverage to break loose, lift and invert the ...

Loy (Laigh) is a townland in Cookstown Urban ED, in Derryloran (Upper Dungannon portion) Civil Parish, in Barony, in Co. Tyrone, Ireland.

The 2023 Loy Association of Ireland's A.G.M will take place on Sunday 15th January 2023 at 1pm. in the Bush Hotel, Carrick on Shannon. Any motion (1 per county) to be sent to the Secretary by 8th January. A NEW ADULT LOY CAN BE …