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    #7172
    KatyMac
    Registered Users Posts: 1,209 ✭✭✭KatyMac


    gozunda wrote: »
    Have a large pond / wet area at the bottom of a field. Holds considerable amount of water and around 5 feet deep or do at the centre. Fed by a spring. Surrounded by considerable depth of heavy clay - no rock evident. Every now and then the entire volume of water of the pond vanishes overnight. I am waiting to go down down one day and find I have as yet I undiscovered cave system.

    You don't live near me do you? I have something similar. Many years ago we had a 'proper' pond in a field and the whole thing disappeared over a couple of weeks. The field was then completely dry for about 10 years and now it has started to get soggy and rushy again and there is a smallish hole that the water is flowing into. The burning question is where is the water going to???


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    #7173
    gozunda
    Registered Users Posts: 18,996 ✭✭✭✭gozunda


    KatyMac wrote: »
    You don't live near me do you? I have something similar. Many years ago we had a 'proper' pond in a field and the whole thing disappeared over a couple of weeks. The field was then completely dry for about 10 years and now it has started to get soggy and rushy again and there is a smallish hole that the water is flowing into. The burning question is where is the water going to???

    This one can empty over night. It also fills fairly quickly. Makes me wonder how many wild fowl , frogs etc have found themselves disappearing rapidly into the bowels of the earth :pac:


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    #7174
    Buford T. Justice XIX
    Closed Accounts Posts: 20,633 ✭✭✭✭Buford T. Justice XIX


    gozunda wrote: »
    Have a large pond / wet area at the bottom of a field. Holds considerable amount of water and around 5 feet deep or do at the centre. Fed by a spring. Surrounded by considerable depth of heavy clay - no rock evident. Every now and then the entire volume of water of the pond vanishes overnight. I am waiting to go down down one day and find I have as yet I undiscovered cave system.

    There was an old ring fort near our house and a neighbour, now dead, used be able to squeeze into an underground cave system and walk about a mile underground to emerge near an old castle. Sadly, he wouldn't tell any of us young lads where the entrance was for good reason too.

    We would have a few sinkholes appear every so often, there's two in the field in front of our house. The ESB brought a load of earth yesterday evening to fill in one just under one of the stays in our transformer where it subsided and there's a small one over the field. Always a few appearing after a very dry spell. The worst was the farm road dropping down after me driving over it with the tractor a few years ago.


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    #7175
    Base price
    Registered Users Posts: 11,191 ✭✭✭✭Base price


    Buford T. Justice V wrote: »
    There was an old ring fort near our house and a neighbour, now dead, used be able to squeeze into an underground cave system and walk about a mile underground to emerge near an old castle. Sadly, he wouldn't tell any of us young lads where the entrance was for good reason too.

    We would have a few sinkholes appear every so often, there's two in the field in front of our house. The ESB brought a load of earth yesterday evening to fill in one just under one of the stays in our transformer where it subsided and there's a small one over the field. Always a few appearing after a very dry spell. The worst was the farm road dropping down after me driving over it with the tractor a few years ago.
    Many years ago when my late FIL was ploughing the plough and back wheels of the tractor fell into a underground tunnel. The tunnel ran from the ruins of an old castle which was beside a ring fort to a large house (originally a tower house) about a mile away. Archaeologists surveyed the tunnel but unfortunately no artifacts were found.


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    #7176
    Buford T. Justice XIX
    Closed Accounts Posts: 20,633 ✭✭✭✭Buford T. Justice XIX


    Base price wrote: »
    Many years ago when my late FIL was ploughing the plough and back wheels of the tractor fell into a underground tunnel. The tunnel ran from the ruins of an old castle which was beside a ring fort to a large house (originally a tower house) about a mile away. Archaeologists surveyed the tunnel but unfortunately no artifacts were found.

    It's all Limestone round us and I'd love to have a gander through some of the caves. There's loads of stories about passages joining local features like our stories about ring forts and castles and stuff. There's so much forgotten about our localities:(


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    #7177
    Base price
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    Buford T. Justice V wrote: »
    It's all Limestone round us and I'd love to have a gander through some of the caves. There's loads of stories about passages joining local features like our stories about ring forts and castles and stuff. There's so much forgotten about our localities:(
    As I get older I regret that I wasn't more attentive to the stories that the older generation told me when I was a youngster. Unfortunately those people have passed and their stories have gone with them.
    I never thought about what type of rock was at my homeplace but I just had a look at the Geological Survey of Ireland website (https://dcenr.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=ebaf90ff2d554522b438ff313b0c197a&scale=0) and it's calcareous shale limestone conglomerate. I knew there was shale cause I saw tons of it dug out when a new gas pipeline was put in through my BIL's farm nearby.


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    #7178
    Buford T. Justice XIX
    Closed Accounts Posts: 20,633 ✭✭✭✭Buford T. Justice XIX


    Base price wrote: »
    As I get older I regret that I wasn't more attentive to the stories that the older generation told me when I was a youngster. Unfortunately those people have passed and their stories have gone with them.
    I never thought about what type of rock was at my homeplace but I just had a look at the Geological Survey of Ireland website (https://dcenr.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=ebaf90ff2d554522b438ff313b0c197a&scale=0) and it's calcareous shale limestone conglomerate. I knew there was shale cause I saw tons of it dug out when a new gas pipeline was put in through my BIL's farm nearby.

    Ah feck it, don't give me links like that, that's tomorrow gone now wandering around the local area:P


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    #7179
    Hard Knocks
    Registered Users Posts: 3,967 ✭✭✭Hard Knocks


    gozunda wrote: »
    Did ye get home?

    Had to walk back to get the Jeep & trailer, thankfully it was in a field with good access.
    Took me over half an hour to lift & drag onto the trailer.
    Have left in garage to put on a new ignition


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    #7180
    Base price
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    The above posts about the history of our farmland reminds me of a previous post by another F&F regular.
    @patsy -did you locate any Mass rocks in your area.


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    #7181
    MeTheMan
    Registered Users Posts: 527 ✭✭✭MeTheMan


    Buford T. Justice V wrote: »
    Ah feck it, don't give me links like that, that's tomorrow gone now wandering around the local area:P

    Same as that. Spent an hour looking at mineral deposits in my area. Off the buy a pick now..


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    #7182
    _Brian
    Registered Users Posts: 18,522 ✭✭✭✭_Brian


    Base price wrote: »
    As I get older I regret that I wasn't more attentive to the stories that the older generation told me when I was a youngster. Unfortunately those people have passed and their stories have gone with them.
    I never thought about what type of rock was at my homeplace but I just had a look at the Geological Survey of Ireland website (https://dcenr.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=ebaf90ff2d554522b438ff313b0c197a&scale=0) and it's calcareous shale limestone conglomerate. I knew there was shale cause I saw tons of it dug out when a new gas pipeline was put in through my BIL's farm nearby.

    One night I was well down the internet rabbit hole i came axross maps showing where mineral tests were done in water ways.
    Our land was sampled twice but only trace amounts of gold seen.

    Could never get back to that site again.


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    #7183
    Hard Knocks
    Registered Users Posts: 3,967 ✭✭✭Hard Knocks


    Good luck at today’s sale Lady H


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    #7184
    Say my name
    Registered Users Posts: 11,256 ✭✭✭✭Say my name


    Buford T. Justice V wrote: »
    Ah feck it, don't give me links like that, that's tomorrow gone now wandering around the local area:P

    You think you may be bad.

    I gave a few hours spring last year. Going around the area looking at how grass in fields was doing in the purple shaded areas (dolerite, basalt).
    It was doing quite well actually and another thing I found is that early churches in the area seemingly sought out these dolerite areas to build on. There was a stone circle built on another area in Robinstown and the circle was made with dolerite stones.

    The inner circle in Stonehenge across the water was built with dolerite stones too.

    The first Norman settlement in the country in Old Ross would be a volcanic area too. Not pure dolerite but just about a mile away to a "purple patch".


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    #7185
    whelan2
    Registered Users Posts: 29,267 ✭✭✭✭whelan2


    When the new type registration for cars came out there was tn and ts. Tipperary North and south. When did it change to just T?


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    #7186
    Grueller
    Registered Users Posts: 5,135 ✭✭✭Grueller


    whelan2 wrote: »
    When the new type registration for cars came out there was tn and ts. Tipperary North and south. When did it change to just T?

    151 I think

    I bow to Ormonds knowledge below


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    #7187
    orm0nd
    Registered Users Posts: 4,186 ✭✭✭orm0nd


    whelan2 wrote: »
    When the new type registration for cars came out there was tn and ts. Tipperary North and south. When did it change to just T?

    2014... 141T


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    #7188
    whelan2
    Registered Users Posts: 29,267 ✭✭✭✭whelan2


    orm0nd wrote: »
    2014... 141T

    Very out of date I am... Saw a 191 T bus this evening


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    #7189
    keepalive213
    Closed Accounts Posts: 685 ✭✭✭keepalive213


    The annual herd test is there an age limit, its end of April and I'll have a few at 6 week old.


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    #7190
    Albert Johnson
    Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 1,878 Mod ✭✭✭✭Albert Johnson


    keepalive213 wrote: »
    The annual herd test is there an age limit, its end of April and I'll have a few at 6 week old.

    As in a minimum age limit for testing? If so then the answer is no, you can test a calf born the morning of the test to the best of my knowledge.


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    #7191
    Hard Knocks
    Registered Users Posts: 3,967 ✭✭✭Hard Knocks


    Albert Johnson wrote: »
    As in a minimum age limit for testing? If so then the answer is no, you can test a calf born the morning of the test to the best of my knowledge.

    You are correct, but I think a calf not registered doesn’t have to be tested


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    #7192
    Albert Johnson
    Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 1,878 Mod ✭✭✭✭Albert Johnson


    Hard Knocks wrote: »
    You are correct, but I think a calf not registered doesn’t have to be tested

    They don't have to be but the vet will test them if requested. In such a case the vet has to manually enter the tag onto the system as the animal won't appear on your herd profile until there registered. I've tagged calves on the morning of the test and had them tested before sending off the white cards, never had any problems and the calf can then be sold anytime before the next test.


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    #7193
    whelan2
    Registered Users Posts: 29,267 ✭✭✭✭whelan2


    Some goal there by Salah


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    #7194
    _Brian
    Registered Users Posts: 18,522 ✭✭✭✭_Brian


    Getting ready for the summer season.


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    #7195
    tanko
    Registered Users Posts: 9,233 ✭✭✭tanko


    whelan2 wrote: »
    Some goal there by Salah

    A very sweet strike alrite.
    Hopefully it wont end up 2-2.


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    #7196
    zetecescort
    Registered Users Posts: 5,074 ✭✭✭zetecescort


    _Brian wrote: »
    Getting ready for the summer season.

    Funny looking silage wagon :)


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    #7197
    awaywithyou
    Registered Users Posts: 1,935 ✭✭✭awaywithyou


    Tiger rolling back the years....... great to watch tbh


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    #7198
    Dinzee Conlee
    Registered Users Posts: 2,144 ✭✭✭Dinzee Conlee


    _Brian wrote: »
    Getting ready for the summer season.

    I must clean out the rubbish outa the shed to make room for the hay as well...

    Oh, wait...

    ;):):)


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    #7199
    tanko
    Registered Users Posts: 9,233 ✭✭✭tanko


    awaywithyou wrote: »
    Tiger rolling back the years....... great to watch tbh

    Icredible comeback from him after all his injury problems.
    I woulsn't be a fan though, not a very likeable character.


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    #7200
    kollegeknight
    Registered Users Posts: 3,259 ✭✭✭kollegeknight


    Albert Johnson wrote: »
    They don't have to be but the vet will test them if requested. In such a case the vet has to manually enter the tag onto the system as the animal won't appear on your herd profile until there registered. I've tagged calves on the morning of the test and had them tested before sending off the white cards, never had any problems and the calf can then be sold anytime before the next test.


    I do the same, the vet enters the data and I register and by the time the card comes, it time for reading. I prefer to have everything tested if I ever needed to sell anything.

    This year I reckon I’ll have 70% of my cows not calves by time of annual test so will keep calves until next year.


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    #7201
    _Brian
    Registered Users Posts: 18,522 ✭✭✭✭_Brian


    Dinzee Conlee wrote: »
    I must clean out the rubbish outa the shed to make room for the hay as well...

    Oh, wait...

    ;):):)


    :rolleyes:


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