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  1. Old Crafts

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    Topics
    1. activities
      1. economic activities
        1. trades and crafts (~4,680)
    Language
    English
    Collector
    Mary Reilly
    Gender
    Female
    Informant
    Bernard Reilly
    Gender
    Male
    Address
    Cran, Co. Cavan

  2. Old Crafts

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    In days gone past some eighty or ninety years ago home weaving was a great trade particularly in Ulster, and this work was done by means of a loom made by craftsmen specially for that purpose. The man who worked the loom turned out fine webs of linen and also woollen
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