1808,The Repertory of Arts, Manufactures, and Agriculture:
Until within these last twenty years, the tenants on other two estates were entitled to carryfail and divot from this moor, for repairing their houses.
1970,Ulster Folklife - Volumes 15-16, page28:
At Tarves in 1684 the tradesmen valuators referred to mason work, dry-stone work, mud work, cassie work (cobbling),fail and divot work.
1990, Albert Bil,The Shieling, 1600-1840, page244:
Turf 'Fail and divot' masked the wooden components of the shieling buildings.
