School: Coore (Cora), Mullach (roll number 10191)
- Location:
- Coor West, Co. Clare
- Teacher: Pádraig Midheach
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0624, Page 418
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- (continued from previous page)taken off with the hand or in some cases a plane. They were then pounded with a mallet, and damped with water, and twisted in the same way as the ropes made from straw or hay, or rushes. These latter ropes were used for binding [?], and for binding hay or straw when being drawn from the tillage field or meadow, because it was on the backs of horses that straw, hay etc were brought into the farmyard. It was by this means that the farmer took his corn into his yard or haggard to be stacked or his hay to be ricked, because there no cars then in use. Horses were often loaded with a weight of 50 stones, that is they carried 25 stones on each side. If a uneven load were carried the horse would have little ease in carrying his load, and hence it was the duty of the guide (gcolla) to balance(continues on next page)
