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  1. (gan teideal)

    “There were two men working with a gentleman, a father and his son.”

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    were in bed. The men got a ladder and went up to the top of the castle. They got a rope and let Jack down the chimney without making any noise. They they pulled up the rope and tied the three bags to the end of it and let them down to Jack.
    When Jack had the bags full of gold and silver the men on the top of the castle let down the rope. Jack tied the three bags to the rope and the three men pulled the rope up again. The men did not let down the rope to pull Jack up, but went to look at all the gold they got. Jack didn't know what to do. He walked about the castle and he got the skin of a goat with horns on it. Jack put the skin on him got a gallon, and began to make noise about the castle. The gentleman

  2. (gan teideal)

    “Once two men went away to look for work. They walked until their shoes were worn to the uppers, and they were very hungary but could find no work...”

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    Once two men went away to look for work. They walked until their shoes were worn to the uppers, and they were very hungary but could find no work. One day the two of them came to a church, and one of them said, "Let us go in here, and may be we might get some thing good. So in they went and they took every thing they got. When they had every thing gathered, they found that they had nothing to tie them with. So after a while, one of them saw ropes hanging from the bell, and he climbed up one of the ropes until the bell stopped him, and he loosened on of the ropes with one hand, and held on to one of the ropes with the other hand. When he was ready to go down, he found that he wasn't able. He got a knife and cut the rope above his head and fell down about fifty feet. "That is no way of stealing a rope", said the other man. "Just give me your knife". Then he climbed up the rope like a monkey, and when he got to the top of the rope he cut the rope it under his hands, and of the rope fell to the ground, and the man was left hanging above. Then he began pulling and tugging and the bell began to ring so the bell-ringer came and found one man

  3. Trades - Thatching

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    Most of the old houses in this district are thatched. The first day when the house was being thatched the thatch was sewn on with rope yarn and a thatching needle. First of all the rope yarn was tied to the timber at one end of the house. Then a bundle of straw was put on and the rope yarn was brought out around it. Then another bundle was put on and the rope yarn was put around it again and so on until there was one layer of thatch all over the house. Another layer was then put on top of the first one. This time a thatching needle was used to carry the rope yarn in and out through the first layer. A thatching needle is a straight piece of iron about two feet long. At one end of the needle there is a point and about two inches back of the point there is an eye. The other end of the needle is bent to form a handle. The needle was not drawn through the thatch like a needle when sewing cloth. The rope was put into the needle by the man outside. Then he drove the needle in through

  4. A Change of Work

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    that was beside the house on to the roof of the house. He drove the cow up the hill and he put a rope around her neck. Then he drove her across the plank on to the house. He then tied the other end of the rope to the chimney but soon the cow slipped down. Then he went up on the house and put the rope around his own body and he began to pull back the cow but he over balanced and fell down the chimney. He was on one end of the rope and the cow balancing him on the other.
    When his wife came in and saw the cow whe ran to get something to cut the rope. She release the cow but when she cut the rope the man fell down the chimney into the pot of soup. When his wife came in the second time she could see nothing but his two legs. When

  5. The Wonderful Rope

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    fire. But it blew the ashes and coals through the house.
    A story was earlier told as to how there came to be such a rope and the reason why it was to be found in the hills. It ran as follows:- Long ago there lived a witch, and she had great power over cows. So one day she made a rope of a great length. On the first day of May every year she was supposed to go about through all the hills with this rope. One May day she went out with the rope as usual, but a great wind arose, and her rope was broken up into many pieces. She was later heard to say, that if any piece of this rope was tied unto the cow, she would give twice as much milk.

  6. Fairies

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    wheels in the rocks.
    Once upon a time a man was walking through a hill and he found a piece of a rope. He took the piece of rope home and that night, as he was putting in the cows he found that one of the cow rope were broken and he put in the other piece of a rope.
    So the next day he was milking the cow and he got 3 times as much milk. So they left the rope in the hill again and the cow had the same amount as before. This was a fairy rope found by the man.

  7. (gan teideal)

    “There was a wee woman, there was a wee man, there was a wee pot, there was a wee pan.”

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    kid did nothing on me." She called on the stick to beat the dog. Says the stick: "I'll not, for the dog did nothing on me." She called on the fire to burn the stick. Says the fire: "I'll not, for the stick did nothing on me". She called in the water to drown the fire. Says the water "I'll not, for the fire did nothing on me." She called on the bull to drink the water. Says the bull: "I'll not, for the water did nothing on me." She called on the butcher to kill the bull: Says the butcher "I'll not, for the bull did nothing on me." She called on the rope to hang the butcher. Says the rope: "I'll not, for the butcher did nothing on me." She called on the rat to eat the rope. Says the rat: "I'll not, for the rope did nothing on me."She called on the cat to kill the rat. Says the cat: "I'll not, till I get some milk." She called on the cow to give her some milk. Says the cow: "I'll not, till I get some mash." "You'll soon get that," says the wee woman. When the cow got the mash she gave some milk. When the cat got the milk she ran at the rat; the rat ran at the rope: the rope ran at the butcher: the butcher ran at the bull, the bull ran at the water: the water ran at the fire: the fire

  8. Rope-Making

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    would have to get horse’s hair, and bring it to the rope-maker in an article, which was called a ropewalk. If you were getting a hemp rope made you would have to get hemp and bring it to the rope-maker in a ropewalk. If you were getting a fibre rope made you would have to get fibre and bring it to the rope-maker in the ropewalk. When the ropemaker got the ropewalk full of the material he twisted it into a rope. When the rope was made it was tied on each end by hemp or twine.
    Written by: - Patrick Galavan,
    Cullentra,
    The Rower.
    Told by Mr Galavan (Age 52)

  9. Cluichí Beaga Simplí

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    A game the boys used to play at wakes long ago was when the people were all gathered at the house, the boys would tie a rope around the dead man's waist.. There was no lamps at that time and the people could not see them doing it. They used to bring the rope down to the end of the (??) and when they pull the rope, the dead man

  10. Games and Pastimes

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    In olden times games and pastimes were common among the Irish people. This is one game which they used to play, The name of it is Tharta Bróg. This is the way which it is played, all the men at the house where the person would be dead would sit down on straw on the floor.
    They would make a rope a few feet long out of the straw which would be left near them and they would put a knot at the end of the rope. THen they would put the rope between their legs and everyone that would be in the game would shout Tharta Bróg. No one would know who had the rope and every one would be expecting a blow. in the end one would catch a hold of the rope and give the other a blow on the foot. The game then would be finished

  11. Games and Pastimes - Thart an Bhróg

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    Tharta Bhróg was a game which men used to play at wakes some years ago. It was a costume to play that game at wakes, and corpse houses. This is the way the game was played, A man would make a straw rope and he would put a know at the end of the rope. The men then would sit in a line along the floor on a bit of straw.
    They would have their feet stretched out on the floor. Some person in particular would have the rope behind their back, and when he would get the opurtunity he would raise the rope and a blow of the know across the back would be the thing that the nearest one to the man who had the rope would expect.
    The game would keep going on until morning and at seven o'clock they would all go home.

  12. Old Crafts - Rope-Making

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    To make a rope plenty of straw must be at hand and a twister or short stick. The straw is better when loose and broken. The maker sits on a stool or chair with the straw near him. The twister then puts the stick in a piece of straw and starts to twist. The maker holds the straw to the rope with one hand and lets it pass through the other so as to keep the rope fine. The twister keeps stepping back according as the rope comes to him twisting with his two hands all the time.

  13. Customs

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    Long ago the people used to play a lot of tricks at a wake. They used to play care. The people used to have a thick rope made from straw. On the night of a wake they would sit down on the floor in a ring and they would have one person in the middle of the ring. They would pass the rope from person to person and they would keep hitting the person in the middle until he would catch the rope.

  14. Customs

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    Long ago the people used to play a lot of tricks at a wake. They used to play. The people used to have a thick rope made from straw. On the night of a wake they would sit down on the floor in a ring and they would have one person in the middle of the ring. They would pass the rope from person to person and they would keep hitting the person in the middle until he would catch the rope.

  15. A Story

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    rose up out of the lake and a rope in his hand. He spread the rope and put thirty barks (barts) of oats in the rope and put them on his back and he went down into the lake. That is how he treated the man for not calling him.

  16. May Day

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    any knot that would be put on a rope or a string.

  17. Horse

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    round ball on the end of the rope. There is a round ring attached to the rack that keeps his hay, and his rope is put into the ring. When the horse raises up his head the rope will come with him as far as the ball.

  18. Old Crafts

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    Rope making was another occupation that flourished here from about 1810 to 1850 and the road used in the process is yet sometimes called the Rope walk. It is located on the West Bank of the River Moy and is a couple of hundred yards in length. The raw material including hemp for the better kinds of rope, was imported but other sorts were made from the rough part of flax grown locally. Straw rope known as "Soogauns" were made by the country people for their own use and they served many purposes on the farm.. Rope making ceased locally when it was found cheaper to import the finished product.
    Boot and shoe making by hand is now almost unknown in this locality since the invention of machinery for making all kinds of footwear. Before that time this town gave employment to hundreds of skilled workers who made boots and shoes of all sorts entirely by hand from the cutting out of the "upper" to the pegging or sewing of the sole and the work done was of better material and more substantial than that of the present day, besides being cheaper in cost. The Artisans Protective Association formed in 1885 to keep out all the goods of foreign manufacture had 125 shoemakers enrolled.

  19. Games Locally Played

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    The children of this Locality play very nice games. In Winter time they children play dollog. It is an old game.
    This is the way they play it. A few boys gather in a house on a winters night So one of the boys will get a cloth, and put it on his eyes, and the rest of the boys will run round the house until the boy with the cloth on his eyes catch one of them. They boy that is caught will have to put on the cloth on his eyes, and follow the rest of the boys So the game is carried on like that for a while. Another game is skipping. First four girls will gather together and get a thin rope. Then two of the girls will catch each an end of the rope. Then the girls that have a hold of the rope will put it round, and the other two girls will jump in to the rope, and they will hop, every time the rope is being put round, it will go under their feet. So they will play like that for while. In Summer time the children play

  20. In The Penal Times

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    at Newport on 9th June. When he was being hung the rope broke. But another rope was found. Father Manus said when the rope broke "My life is my own yet". "It is" answered the hangmen, "and it will be if there is not a rope to be found in Newport".
    Another time the priest said "I thirst". A man called Corrigan ran into the house where Mc Governs now stands and brought out a cup of water and he handed it to the priest.