Threshing hay with flails.
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Harrowing land in preparation for the planting of potatoes. Horse visible, used for harrowing.
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Threshing hay with flails.
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Harvest scene. Reaping oats, Slieve Gullion in the background. On the reaper is Paddy the Racker O’Hare going to tie a sheaf and the late Johnny Babe.
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Harvest, "A Band" (local term), used for tying oats, so that none of the grain in the binding of the sheaf forms part of the knot. Saves the grain from "heating" and sprouting in bad weather.
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Group threshing hay with flail.
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Mickey (Ramsay) MacDonald, Jemmy Ned (Murphy), "Flyer" Mickey Begley, Patsy Begley.
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Mowing oats with a scythe: girl holds the stick for the mower to press back the oats and so facilitate the mowing. Mower is Mickey O’Hare, the brother-in-law of MJ Murphy and his daughter Statia.
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Ridges prepared with manure.
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Hand-stacks of oats at Dromintee.
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Hand-stacks of oats at Dromintee.
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Cooking utensils; griddle, oven pot and three legged pot, Clontifleece & Dromintee.
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