Scoil: Snaidhm (C.) (uimhir rolla 11799)

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1. Trades Long Ago (ar lean)

   

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   & closed on end of it in a similar manner.
   In seaside places the men made the boats & the baskets for catching lobsters & they made the nets also. Flax was grown in this district then also. When ripe it was cut, pounded, steeped & treated with a hackle & a cloving tongs & made into linen by the weaver. There were no brushes made then, and people made them of heather or besoms.
   Women made lóipíní themselves of skins of animals & cloth & they wore them to protect their feet. Travelling tailors made clothes of the flannel made from the wood, & every farmer made his rope of hair or soft bogdeal. The farmers made hay ropes to tie the hay-cocks; they were called (sugáin).
   The people tanned the hides by steeping them in the bogs after applying alum, lime & oak bark to them & they made shoes & other articles from the leather. They made whips with this leather & notted cords if procurable. Certain men were able to build lime-kilns & every farmer procured lime-stone & burned lime from it with turf fires. They

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   Topaicí

   1. activities
      1. economic activities
         1. trades and crafts (~4,680)

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   Denis Cronin

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   Fireann

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   Sneem, Co. Kerry