Volume: CBÉ 0189

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1. Bonfire Night (continued)

   

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   fire. I don't know what was her meaning for it, but I think it was in order to work pisreógs she did it.

   

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2. Old Wooden Plough

   

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   I remember well to see the old wooden ploughs in use. A fellow would have to walk beside it with a big timber fork to keep it in the ground.
   I also remember the block wheel cars, wheels axle and all used turn. A good horse would be hard set to draw three hundred weight of a load up a small hill with the black wheel cars.
   At that time they used bring the corn on the horses back to Wexford. They had a bind of a yoke fixed on the horse's back to hold the bags.
   The man and woman used travel mostly on horse-back, the man

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   Item type

   Lore

   Language

   Béarla

   Writing mode

   Handwritten

   Writing script

   Roman script

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   • Patrick Doyle