We have two chairs with rope seats at home. The frame is made of wood. It was my father who made the seats. The rope was bought in a shop. It is wound round from the back to the front first, and then across. The rope is pulled tight, and the strands are kept as close together as possible.

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six the bed without making a mistake she can lay a bed and no one can lay their leg on her bed ,but they must jump over it.
Skipping. A rope is necessary for skipping .A girl stands at each end of the rope to twist it.If the rope is long enough any number can any number can skip in the rope.Autumn is the proper time for skipping.The girls at the end of the rope repeat different verses .One verse is Tinker ,Tailor ,Soldier ,Sailor a Rich-man a Poor man a beggar man a Thief.If rhe girl stops while the other girls are saying Thief .She is going to marry a Thief and the next girl goes in for a skip.

Near here is the grave of the "Yellow Men" where 9 shipwrecked Frenchmen were buried about 60 years ago. Their ship was in difficulties and they threw a rope ashore by which 9 were saved. One of the local young men however cut part of this fine rope (which was considerably too long at first) so that when the ship drifted a little away from the shore the cut rope was too short and useless to save the others who were drowned in that spot.

Long ago all the farmers used to make their own butter but now-a-days they send their milk to the creameries. Some of the farmers separate the milk yet and make their own butter with the cream. They have a churn barrel with which they make the butter. Some of the churns are twisted with an engine and more of them are twisted with handles. When the person is making the butter in hot weather he has to make it very slowly. There are a lot of superstitions about butter. There was a farmer in this parish and one day as he was going to town the butter passed him on the road. He went to the priest's house and told him what happened. The priest told him that it would never again pass him. When the man went home he went into the dairy and the butter was in the churn again. There is another pishoge about a rope taking away the butter from a farmer. The rope was put into a barrel in the yard by some one and the farmer could not make butter or separate the milk for a few weeks. One day the farmer's son went to the barrel in the yard and there he saw the rope inside and it started to shake. The boy went in and called his father out and showed him the rope. His father told him to go for the priest and as they was coming in the yard they met a woman coming out the gate with the rope in her hand. When she saw them she fell on the ground and could not speak. The farmer's son knew her and he went to lift her up but he could not. The farmer's son took her to her home and her people put her to bed and she never again got up.

and the wheel was turned by means of a handle on one side. There was a man twisting the wheel and another man drawing out the rope and twisting it at the same time.Next it was taken from the wheel for which one would need great skill. Then it was nailed on to something so as to keep it twisted. It was left there for a couple of days. After that time it was put into the wheel again so as to tight-en it well, and then the rope was finished.Next the rope was cut into whatever length that was required. People who made any rope by this method in the olden times were very high-ly paid for their work and as the rope was made strong

crook and twisted well. One man twists the rope while the other pulls out and adds the hay. The man who is pulling out the hay gives it a few twists in his hand according as he adds it to the rope. The man who is holding the twister keeps moving backwards and twisting until the rope is long enough to tie up a cock of hay.There is an other way in which a hay-rope can be made without a twister and then only one man is needed. He pulls out the hay and twists it with his hands. According as he twists it he rolls it round his thumb and he continues twisting and rolling until the rope is long enough.

from one end to the other, with the hands across, making a ball of the rope as it is being made. This is called a thumb rope, because it is made with your hand.
To make a hay rope with a rake. Fasten or twist a thin piece of hay round the end tooth of the rake. Twist the rake by the handle round and round, and settling the hay from the cock with the hands at the same time.
The hay rope which is made this way is rolled into a ball, as the thumb rope is when it is being made.

Everyone round about had a hold of a rope and one of the men had to be Master and when he would say Hold fast they were to let go of the rope and when he would say let go you were to hold fast the rope and if you did not do this you were slapped.

This is a game that was played at wakes. It is called "Harrow." The way this game was played was a number of men would sit down on the ground and put their legs out from them. Then one man would sit inside the circle of men. This man was called the fool. The men in the circle would have a rope and pass it under their legs. As the rope was passed around, one one would shout "Harrow. Harrow. where is the harrow" As these words were said one of the men would pull out the rope and hit the fool on the head. When the man hits the fool on the head, the fool tries to snape the rope. If he gets it he goes into the circle with the men and the man that hits him would have to go into the middle and be the fool.

together with a piece of short rope. Then the hind legs are tied with one end of a long rope.
The end remaining is brought out between the front legs under the rope which is binding them. It is then brought back again between the hind ones. A couple of men pull the rope while another pushes against the animal's side and he is thrown.
Then the sculler takes a sculling saw - a short strong saw like a butcher's, and cuts off the horn nearest to him. The rope is kept taut all the time to prevent the animal moving. Iodine is painted on the wound and sulphur sprinkled on it. The animal is then heaved over on the other side, and the second horn is dealt with in the same way.

It was an old belief in Ireland that people had power to take the butter off their neighbour's churn by certain charms.
One of these charms was to weave a rope around you where three townlands met and say while weaving the rope, "All the butter of these three townlands come to me". This had to be done on a May morning.
One May morning a priest out of the County Leitrim was going to a sick call. He saw a woman named Mrs. Reilly standing between three townlands weaving a rope round her. He thought she had lost her senses. When she saw the priest she got a great surprise. She dropped the rope and ran home. The priest picked up the rope and brought it home. He left it in the dairy. In a few days his servant began to churn in the dairy. When she was a while churning she took off the lid and found that the churn was full with butter.

When the cow kicks tie her two horns with a rope.

Skipping:- I play skipping with a piece of rope called a skipping rope. There are two handles on each end of the rope. I can play it two ways.
(1) I catch each end of the handle and I wind it. Then my feet hop or jump over the rope when it hits the ground.
(2) Also I can play it by two other girls play winding the rope and then I play it in the same way as the first way.Snakes and ladders:- You will have to have a different colour for each

1. There was a roe maker in Dublin who had a brother a rope maker in England and the rope maker in England had no brother a rope maker in Dublin?
The rope maker in Dublin was a

hay on, until the rope is finished making.

When a horse is sold the winkers,rope or head-stall is kept by the seller.

Once upon a time there was a man that led a very bad life. A thought struck his mind and he went to confession and told the priest that he stole a rope. And the priest asked him if it was a valuable rope. The man said it was just an ordinary rope. The priest said it wasn't a great sin. The man then told the priest that there was something on the end of the rope. And the priest asked him what it was and the man said a pig.

One sultry day "Balloff" went to Derrymahinch old churchyard to cut a "gawail" of sod for the ass. The day was very warm & when he got there he sat down for a rest. Soon he heard some one coming along and looking out he saw a man named Barron coming along towards the churchyard. He knew that Barron was on the same errand as himself & quickly decided to get his grass cut. He hid himself in the ivy which grew very thickly on the gables of the old church & watched the cutting of the grass. Barron had his load cut & was proceeding to fasten the rope firmly around it when he was startled by a deep & as he thought ghostly voice commanding him to leave that there "L'ave that there" was the order and so startled was he that the rope dropped from his hand. However he took courage and again tried to fasten the rope but again came the command. "L'ave that there" More frightened than before he looked all round but of course could see no sign of anyone & again tried to fasten the rope and

The cows are kept in a shed called a cowhouse, byre, and some call it the cró Cows are tied by means of a rope fastened round the neck. This stong rope is tied on to a chain, at the end of which is a large round iron ring this ring is put in a stake set firmly in the ground. The rope is sometimes tied round the cows' horns, but cows are never tied by the leg. The tying are always bought in the shop, and the farmer makes the loops etc. A branch is never hung in the cowhouse, but sometimes a horse-shoe is hung at the back of the door to bring luck to the stock. People always bless themselves before commencing to milk the cow. A cross cow is tied. A "spanshel" is made thus A strong piece of rope is got and attached to a small piece of stick. A loop is left at the end of it. The rope was entwined round the two hind legs of the cow and fastened by means of the loop and the piece of wood[Drawing]

There was once a priest in Urlingford and he kept a servant boy. One morning he sent him down to a well to bring in water. When he went down there was an old woman skimming the water with a rope. When she saw the priest's boy she ran away and left the rope behind her. Then he took the rope home and left it in a barrel. In a few days after he went to the barrel and it was flowing over with butter.