Se?n ? Riada

there are those that will tell you that the word bodhran is as old as the hills. So it is, but the Irish Dictionary it first appears in is more like a word list and bodhran didn't get a description. Not until as late as the 1930s does it appear as a drum. Documentary evidence is not only hard to come by before 1949, it is characterised by its absence. But urban myths make better stories.

Hide stretched over a hoop can be made by anyone, and if you pierce holes in it with a hot nail you get a sieve - ideal for separating husks and flour. So before it becomes a sieve - it must have had uses in music, but that is speculation, the evidence is ...................... not there.