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   a boy. About a dozen houses scattered promiscuously, no two together & main [?] pf houses in all directions. No rent, rates, nor taxes. Old houses built of mud - kitchen & room with cáilleog over lattes.
   Light: Rushes in common use when my father, a boy. It was one of his tasks to procure rushes from the bog, so many times per week. One strip of the bark left on the peeled rush. dipped in grisset & fixed in "Rush-stick" when lighted. Skillet [?] for small pot,
   Cattle: the only cure or preventative wh. I positely remember is the hanging up in the chimney of the quorter of a calf which died of black quorter or black leg as a preventative against the recurrence of the malody. I saw this done often & I have counted dozens of shanks hanging within the chimneys of old walls, grim phantoms of famine days & crowbar brigades
   Common belief in Carlow that the spirits of the bad re-appear as dogs. Cf. the spectr hound of Brown's Hill Tools, the spann - four [?] Fork & the feac, ordinary garden spade & even the word "mideog", large 'dangerous looking' knife
   Potatoe-Oniois: Set the shortest day of the year & pull the longest. Grain sown as near as possible to St Patrick's Day & reaped 14 or 16 August if possible. Shrubs & slips will grow any month with a R in it. Smith Rick Purser carried on extensive foundry work in Castletown force down to 1903. Many a night I sat up watching the furnaces belching flames & smoke. I even had a little foundry of mine own - molten lead being the metal I used.

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