Volume: CBÉ 0189
- Date
- 1935
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- (continued from previous page)fire. I don't know what was her meaning for it, but I think it was in order to work pisreógs she did it.
- 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(continues on next page)