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School: Ballymartle (roll number 7361)

Location:
Ballymartle, Co. Cork
Teacher:
Patrick Kelleher
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0322, Page 089

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    Farming long ago was much different from the farming nowadays, people used to plough with a timber plough, they had no machines for cutting the corn only scythes, they would cut the hay also with scythes, the threshing machines they would put a big stick in the ground and beat the shaves off of it until the grains were all after falling out of it, then they would get a winnowing machine and separate the oats from the chaff.
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    History Edit
    Topics
    1. activities
      1. economic activities
        1. agriculture (~2,659)
    Language
    English
    Collector
    Batty Ahern
    Gender
    Male
    Address
    Coolkirky, Co. Cork
    Informant
    John Ahern
    Relation
    Parent
    Gender
    Male