School: Kilfenora (B.) (roll number 2155)

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   This is the way they used make buckets long ago they used get tin and bend it with a pliers and round it with the plier's too. This is the way they used spinn the thread long ago they used get a stool and a wheel and spin the thread until it be spun very fine.

   

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2. Seancheirdeanna

   

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   Long ago there was no candles, It was the way they made themselves, The way for makeing candles is, They got a green rush and pealed the skin of it, Then dipped it in suit or lard, These candles were called paideogaí, Long ago people had no ropes, They made class of ropes called Suighan, The way for makeing them was they got a thing called a twisting bow then got hay, One man sat in chair, Another made a lubin of the hay the other put the bow into it then started to twist, While the other man keeps the hay put in while the other keeps twisting, The way for burning lime,. First they made a lime kill in the side of a hill when they have done they break about eight loads of stones and throw them into the kill they must put

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   Topics

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

   Language

   English

   Collector

   Séamus Mac Giolla Máirtín

   Gender

   Male