Author : Michael J. Conry
Description : This book describes the history and folklore of edge-runner grinding stones, which were used mainly for mixing culm (anthracite slack), yellow clay and water so that the culm could be made into culm balls and burned in a 'raised' hearth (grate) as...
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Author : Michael J. Conry
Description : This simple Quaker-style granite fence is a unique feature of the Carlow landscape - found nowhere else in the world. It was erected mainly as a decorative fence around gardens and between fields. It addition...
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Author : Michael J. Conry
Description : Culm, the fine gritty and dusty by-product of anthracite mining, was used as a domestic and industrial fuel for almost 400 years in Ireland, and even longer in other parts of the world. It was burned as a domestic fuel chiefly in the regions...
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Author : Michael J. Conry
Description : The use of corn stands in Ireland in the 18th, 19th and first half of the 20th centuries was closely linked with the arrival of the brown rat in 1722. The rat caused massive damage to stacks of corn which were kept over for the spring threshing....
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Author : Michael J. Conry
Description : With almost 70% of the country underlain by granite bedrock, it is not surprising that granite has made a huge contribution to the geology, landscape and agriculture of Co. Carlow. It has shaped the very lives of the people who inhabited the country...
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