A Herman Ottó Múzeum Évkönyve 19. (1980)

PALÁDI-KOVÁCS Attila: Gazdasági épületek Észak-Borsodban és Gömörben. A rakodó

GAZDASÁGI ÉPÜLETEK ÉSZAK-BORSODBAN ÉS GÖMÖRBEN. A RAKODÓ 225 The third formal variety of the hay-shed is the most simple one. It consist of a stable, fastened roof resting on solid wooden pillars, having no wall at all. The gabled roof was earlier covered with thatch, now it is tiled (fig. 1 and 4). Such granaries are to be found in Gömör and Torna as well, but it is characteristic of the Cserehát hill-range in NorthBorsod. The southern border of the zone where it can be found cannot exactly be drawn: it ends, possibly, with the hills. The hay-sheds stand, mostly, in the yard or the garden of the farmers. Sometimes hay is stored on the fields (fig. 8-10). In Szalóc (Slavec) the haystores are equally distributed in groups along the road running through on the field. The first ones were built in 1907. The building was the task of the carpenter. Earlier the hay had been stored on the same place but in stacks. A hay-shed of average measurements is 5 x 4 metres of ground floor and 8 cartloads of hay can be stored in it. Richer farmers had larger hay-sheds. The building of an average hay-shed cost 150-200 Fts in 1910-1915. At the same time a cow cost 100-120 Fts, while a horse, a good one; 150 Fts. As inherited property (only boys could inherit it) the hay-shed could get into the possession of 2-3 brothers in the same time. Such buildings were divided into sections with a separate door to each, and the owners used the hay-shed together. Attila Paládi-Kovács