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   the old people used burn an ash tree and keep the ashes for washing. They used boil the ashes in the water in which they would be going to wash the clothes.
   They used make baskets for putting out the turf. They used cut hazel rods and scrape the skin off them. They used stick thirty four of them in the ground and have them in a straight line in one side and like a circle from one end of the line to the other. They used have every two rods near each other and about a finger and a half between the first pair, and the second pair, and the other rods must be worked in and out between them. A good pair of baskets would take two hundred and forty rods to make them.
   Before all the implements for the farm were to be got in a shop they had to be made by a smith. For cutting the hay they used have reaping hooks and for saving it they used get a branch of a tree with two prongs and use it. They used make small trams because they used have to bring it in with an ass.
   When they would want to colour any clothes they would burn an oak tree and scrape off the burnt part of it before it would be turned into ashes. They used buy copris and mix it with the logwood and boil the logwood and

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

   Language

   English

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   Michael Mc Mahon

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