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   poorhouse which had set up after the famine.
   Times improved a few years after the famine the tenants that survived on the land had fairly good farms as they got over the derelict farms. They kept sheep two or three cows, a horse, fowl and a big they grew green crops and a good share of corn, wheat and potatoes.
   Silverskins and Leather coats these seeds though bad on the table did not blight as quickly as the "Cups". Grinding mills set op in O'Brien's Bridge and Blackwater and besides being a great advantage for grinding corn and wheat they employed a lot of the young men of the locality. The young girls and boys also earned at the great houses and along with the industry at home the tenants managed to keep a grip on the holding. The Clothes they wore were homesput, the wool of the sheep washed, dyed, carded woven for flannel and frieze and spun from worsted thread for socks and stockings.
   The weaving looms of this district were at Cremens in Botheen Philip. The men wore flannel bauneens, frieze coats with tails, kneebreeches, long stockings square toed shoes

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   History Edit

   Language

   English

   Informant

   Malachy Dinneen

   Gender

   Male

   Age

   79

   Occupation

   Farmer

   Address

   Kilmore, Co. Clare