Sprong, fork or grape?

road_high

Just curious as to what people call a sprong ie a fork in different parts of the country. I live in kilkenny and a sprong was always a sprong! Meeting people from up the country, they call it a grape or greap? Any other variations?
Googling this I see sprong originated from the yola language in south Wexford. Which makes sense as to why we call them sprongs!

Rho b

Grape is what I call it although I learned that from my Longford grandparents. However around here its called a dung fork.

quadboy

you mean a pike

Rho b

quadboy wrote: »

you mean a pike

I understand a Pike to be a Pitchfork - two pronged fork for pitching hay/straw as opposed to a grape which has 4 curved prongs.

fredweena

We call that a four-pronged pike. Also down at the home place they call a cock of hay a wine.

johnpawl

Dung fork here

Rho b

fredweena wrote: »

We call that a four-pronged pike. Also down at the home place they call a cock of hay a wine.

Never heard that expression before and I am from the era when cocking hay was normal.
Can I ask what part of the country are you from.

Bizzum

4 grain fork or dungfork (has 4 grains)
A two grain fork or pitchfork (has 2 grains)
The five grain fork is what ya eat your dinner with (if ya don't have a dinner fork!). :-)

On the subject of hay, we had grass cocks, field cocks, pikes and reeks. Depending on the size/shape.

yellow50HX

fredweena wrote: »

We call that a four-pronged pike. Also down at the home place they call a cock of hay a wine.

Yeah it's the 4 prong pike, the 3 prong pike (turf pike), and the 2 prong pike ( bale pike)

Rho b

Bizzum wrote: »

4 grain fork or dungfork (has 4 grains)
A two grain fork or pitchfork (has 2 grains)
The five grain fork is what ya eat your dinner with (if ya don't have a dinner fork!). :-)

Actually I understood that a five grained fork was for spuds/turnips and turf, although they have little knobbly bits at the end of the tines. Stand corrected though :rolleyes:

Bizzum

Rho b wrote: »

Actually I understood that a five grained fork was for spuds/turnips and turf, although they have little knobbly bits at the end of the tines. Stand corrected though :rolleyes:

The 5 grain fork I was on about is your hand :-)

The turf fork is called a bead fork and has 6 grains with a bead on the tip of each.
There was a stone fork with 9 or 10 grains, close together.
There was an old 3 pronged fork with shortish, flat and rounded grains for digging out spuds.

fredweena

I'm from Kerry. They were always called wines. My father is from Galway and said that he'd never heard it before he moved down either.

Rho b

fredweena wrote: »

I'm from Kerry. They were always called wines. My father is from Galway and said that he'd never heard it before he moved down either.

Its surprising to me that for such a small country we have some many different expressions for the same implement etc.
My mam is from Longford and they used a Loy in years gone by for planting/setting potatoes. I understand that the Loy was used extensively in that part of the country but from what I can gather was not used in Dublin for the same purpose

Muckit

Grape = 4 sprongs
fork = 2 sprongs
Beet grape = the one with the balls on the end

freedominacup

Sprongs and pikes all the way down here. I remember starting in Multy back in the day and hearing grape/greap for the first time. Had to figure out what it was from context.

Markcheese

Rho b wrote: »

Its surprising to me that for such a small country we have some many different expressions for the same implement etc.
My mam is from Longford and they used a Loy in years gone by for planting/setting potatoes. I understand that the Loy was used extensively in that part of the country but from what I can gather was not used in Dublin for the
same purpose

A loy is a kind of a hand Plow, they did demos with it at the ploughing a fee years back,I'd never heard of it down in cork either...

Rovi

4 tines = sprang
2 tines = fork
6 tines with balls = beet fork
9 tines with balls = potato fork

who the fug

4 prongs = pike
2 prongs = fork

3 prongs =?

FT7

pitch fork (2)

dung fork (4)

hay in ascending order ... depending on the weather .. grasscocks, meadow cocks, trams.

moy83

Hay fork = 2 prongs
Pitch fork = 4 prongs
Beet fork / turf fork = 8 beaded prongs

iverjohnston

Graipe here in Cavan, if they have 4 tines. Fork if it has 2 tines. Co-Op stores selling continental made 3 tine yokes, don't know what you call then. Even rarer , a lad who would work one!

delaval

All hardship but fork 2 grain good for sorting cattle all other work is hydraulic!!!

Dampintheattic

delaval wrote: »

All hardship but fork 2 grain good for sorting cattle all other work is hydraulic!!!

Hydraulic isn't able to replace mandraulic in all cases! -;)

TheBody

In North Longford:

2 prongs= a fork
4 prongs= a grape

A turf grape is one with the nobbily bits on the end of the tines.

Juniorhurler

Sprong here in north Wexford. Pitch fork for two grains.

Sharpshooter82

2 prongs= a fork
4 prongs= a grape

A turf fork is one with the nobbily bits on the end of the tines

MFdaveIreland

Grape, county down

bogman_bass

2 prongs is a pitch fork because its used to "pitch" bales of hay onto a trailer

4 prong is a grape round this part of meath

red bull

2 prongs hay fork
3 prongs silage for
4prongs dung fork

hay, tram cocks and kildares

Mulumpy

Four grain fork ere. Never heard grape before

vincenzolorenzo

We always called it a 4 grain fork as well. Often wondered where the term 'grain' started from in relation to forks?!

munkus

Galway

Hay fork - 2 prongs

Everything else is a fork

Never heard of a grape until some lad was on here talking about stobbing the bull with the "grape". I had images of him charging the bull on horseback with a lance.

whitebriar

Its a sprong here in S wicklow.

Sent a fellah from Sligo to get the sprong for me,he hadn't a clue what it was and calls it a grape.
First I heard of that.

pakalasa

A bit like the Italian man who 'wanna fork on the table'

1chippy

2 prong is a pitch fork. 3 prong is a fork and 4 prong is a grape around here.

Good loser

fredweena wrote: »

I'm from Kerry. They were always called wines. My father is from Galway and said that he'd never heard it before he moved down either.

Them's wynds.

fredweena

Good loser wrote: »

Them's wynds.

You learn something new everyday.:)

C0N0R

1chippy wrote: »

2 prong is a pitch fork. 3 prong is a fork and 4 prong is a grape around here.

Same as ourselves

PN14

Simply known as a 4 prong fork here (dung fork) or a 2 prong fork / pike for the hay fork. In Limerick.

AntrimGlens

up here 4 prongs = graipe .

case885

4 prong pike 2 prong pike or garden fork the one with handel

Jcarnor

A two prong was always known as a fork around here and a four prong as a grape. A friend of mine worked for a farmer in Meath that used to refer to "the two prong sprong" and "the four prong sprong"