War Shillelagh

[David]

Originally Posted by Queequeg

If I google "Sail-Éille", I get sites that say a Sail-Éille is a shillelagh.

This site says that a bata mór or tríú is a 4-footer, used with two hands.

In any event, were cudgels like this used, or is this simply a film prop? If they were, does anyone have examples?

If you click on "images" when you google shillelagh you can find many images in many diferent sizes. It seems that a lot of them have either lanyards or a hole in the same area where a lanyard could be placed.
http://images.google.com/images?ndsp...h&start=0&sa=N