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School: An Lios Rua, Cill Mháille (roll number 9339)

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Lisroe, Co. Clare
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Eibhlín Ní Chonalláin
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0608, Page 180

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  3. XML “Lime-Burning”
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  2. Rope-Making

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    Rope-Making
    Winter also was the time for looking after the kitchen chairs mending them and renewing the sugan seats. The yarn used for this purpose was made either from straw or hay twisted with a twisting bough and made into cliptical balls called mugolls. This was woven in and out between the rounds of the chair either in a simple or complicated design.
    The yarn for tying the trams and ricks of hay was made in a similar manner. The horse rein was made by plaiting horse-hair and one of these was looked on
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