| Summary: | Fairies' Handbar A handbar, used for carrying fish either wet from the _"waterhorse"_ to the flake or dry from the flake to the storage area, consisted simply of two poles having a number of boards, perhaps eight or ten, nailed across them in the central portion thus: Children playing on the beach often came across something very similar in form in the kelp or seaweed. It had little seaweed "bars" for handles and the central portion [reverse] was sort of puffed out seaweek forming a pocket corresponding to the horizontal boards which implement they were accustomed to see used on the fishing premises. My aunt and her childhood friends referred to this seaweed form in this manner. Children of my generation did not use the term. Something very similar to the local "handbar" is the "hand barrow" shown in Fig. 57, p.170 IRISH FOLK WAYS, E. Estyn Evans. Not used Used I Not used Continued from reverse of card, image file F_13077.
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