Growing tobacco in Ireland.

pedigree 6

We have a few old buildings on the farm and myself and father were just talking about them.
Anyway he remembers hearing of wires being strung up between the rafters and tobacco plants being hung up on the wires to dry.

Thought it was interesting.
Anyone else hear of tobacco being grown on their farm or was it just in the southeast.

paul71

pedigree 6 wrote: »

We have a few old buildings on the farm and myself and father were just talking about them.
Anyway he remembers hearing of wires being strung up between the rafters and tobacco plants being hung up on the wires to dry.

Thought it was interesting.
Anyone else hear of tobacco being grown on their farm or was it just in the southeast.

Tabacco was grown on a relatively big scale in Co. Meath between 1880 and 1930, so it was not just the south east. I think you would be faced with the same issue that killed it off back then, high excise rates.

pedigree 6

paul71 wrote: »

Tabacco was grown on a relatively big scale in Co. Meath between 1880 and 1930, so it was not just the south east. I think you would be faced with the same issue that killed it off back then, high excise rates.

Yea that would tie in with what he was saying. He was born in 1937 and he said it was grown on the farm before he was born.

paul71

http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=2057476313

There is a link in my first post in that thread. The tobacco industry in Navan died off because the new free state did nothing to help curb imports by introducing a lower excise rate for home grown tobacco.

It is a perfectly viable crop to grow in Ireland, it is just we cannot compete with the economies of scale gained on 10,000 acre tobacco plantations.

pedigree 6

paul71 wrote: »

http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=2057476313

There is a link in my first post in that thread. The tobacco industry in Navan died off because the new free state did nothing to help curb imports by introducing a lower excise rate for home grown tobacco.

It is a perfectly viable crop to grow in Ireland, it is just we cannot compete with the economies of scale gained on 10,000 acre tobacco plantations.

I'm not suggesting we go back to growing tobacco today.
But thought it was interesting.
They were different times then as well when everyone had a pipe and people didn't know any better.
Usually when you think of tobacco growing, you think of Virginia in the U.S. not wexford or Meath.:D

sheesh

it was grown on the blaskets according to peig

Buford T. Justice XIX

pedigree 6 wrote: »

I'm not suggesting we go back to growing tobacco today.
But thought it was interesting.
They were different times then as well when everyone had a pipe and people didn't know any better.
Usually when you think of tobacco growing, you think of Virginia in the U.S. not wexford or Meath.:D

There is tobacco being grown here atm. There was a report about him, in the Indo I think, growing 1 acre of tobacco for sale as cigars.

Unless I'm losing my mind again:rolleyes:

tractorporn

Buford T. Justice V wrote:

There is tobacco being grown here atm. There was a report about him, in the Indo I think, growing 1 acre of tobacco for sale as cigars.

Buford T. Justice V wrote:

Unless I'm losing my mind again

Nope your not. There has been a lot of talk in the media about this small area of tobacco. I heard a discussion on Matt Cooper about it during the week, Matt's contributer was highly offended that we would attempt to grow such a "harmful" crop in this country!!

Buford T. Justice XIX

tractorporn wrote: »

Nope your not. There has been a lot of talk in the media about this small area of tobacco. I heard a discussion on Matt Cooper about it during the week, Matt's contributer was highly offended that we would attempt to grow such a "harmful" crop in this country!!

Phew!!!

I know I read an article about it in the recent past but still can't find it online.

Keepgrowing

Tobacco was grown on our farm up to WW2 according to my late dad. 1 tobacco drying house still standing. I tried to post a pic of it when I spotted this thread alas unable.

There were 2 houses one is now a store but 1 still intact. It's 20' wide 50' long 18' at eves and rises steeply to form a high A roof. It has a felt roof now slated but it seems it was necessary for the drying process. It's very well vented in 2nd story with no windows or vents below 12-13'.

Sam Kade

I was going to get a few plants from the UK a few years ago to grow it but I never did after. It isn't illegal to grow it as long as it's for your own use.

patsy_mccabe

...as long as you don't inhale.

cml387

It's been grown in Kilsheelan near Clonmel.

Linky

pedigree 6

Keepgrowing wrote: »

Tobacco was grown on our farm up to WW2 according to my late dad. 1 tobacco drying house still standing. I tried to post a pic of it when I spotted this thread alas unable.

There were 2 houses one is now a store but 1 still intact. It's 20' wide 50' long 18' at eves and rises steeply to form a high A roof. It has a felt roof now slated but it seems it was necessary for the drying process. It's very well vented in 2nd story with no windows or vents below 12-13'.

If you want to post pics, you can use the attach files at the bottom of your message when posting from your phone or what I do as well from the laptop is use dropbox and then upload the pic to postimage and then copy the direct link to there and put it in your message with

Keepgrowing

pedigree 6 wrote: »

If you want to post pics, you can use the attach files at the bottom of your message when posting from your phone or what I do as well from the laptop is use dropbox and then upload the pic to postimage and then copy the direct link to there and put it in your message with

Thanks

Sam Kade

patsy_mccabe wrote: »

...as long as you don't inhale.

Don't inhale or don't put up for sale.

davidk1394

cml387 wrote: »

It's been grown in Kilsheelan near Clonmel.

Linky

And I pass by the field every so often saying to myself "that's quare looking cabbage"

pedigree 6

I went from a situation at the opening post thinking tobacco grown in Ireland was very exotic and unusual.
Then to finding out that it was grown in most parts of the country back in the early 1900's.
To now finding out that it's being grown now today again in Ireland.

Isn't boards and the posters great.:D:D

barnaman

Sam Kade wrote: »

I was going to get a few plants from the UK a few years ago to grow it but I never did after. It isn't illegal to grow it as long as it's for your own use.

Illegal to grow without a licence; if for smoking

http://www.irishstatutebook.ie/eli/1933/sro/3/made/en/print

http://www.revenue.ie/en/tax/excise/leaflets/pn1877t.html#a10.1

Daisy 55

davidk1394 wrote: »

And I pass by the field every so often saying to myself "that's quare looking cabbage"

Can you see it from the road?

davidk1394

Daisy 55 wrote: »

Can you see it from the road?

Not really. I was doing work for a farmer and in a few of his fields I could see a small patch of what I now know is tobacco