The traditional Irish cart, as used for transporting turf from the bog and cereal crops from the fields, was a distinctive type, largely unknown in England and mainland Europe. It bore no resemblance to the English wagons typified by that depicted in Constable’s ‘Haywain’, nor did it have the same kind of capacity.

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