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   Old Crafts. Mick Kehoe Duncormick used to spin and weave and made all kinds of cloths, sheets, table cloths, flannels etc. Mrs Cox Lacken made candles and soap for her own use. W. Clooney Belgrove made all kinds of baskets out of sally tree. Andrew Ellard Duncormick made sieves out of special kind of cane and sold them locally. A white smith named William Barrington Duncormick had a forge and repaired guns. Willie Hunt, Rath made all the nails to put on the slates on Rathangan Chapel amounting to about £20 worth. Chrissie Cleary Rath.

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   Topics

   1. activities
      1. economic activities
         1. trades and crafts (~4,680)

   Language

   English

   Collector

   Chrissie Cleary

   Address

   Rath, Co. Wexford

2. Old Crafts

   

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   Maggy Maddock & Mick Burke, both from Lacken used to make candles from tallow that they got from wrecked ships during the great war. Tom King of Mayglass used to make churns & kielers. Tom Bent of Belgrove used to make baskets from the sally tree.

   Dick Roche
   Johnstown Hs
   Duncormick.

   

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