Chores

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Chores in Old Ireland

In addition to harvesting turf, tending the crops and animals there were other chores such as grinding corn, churning butter, spinning, net making, and laundry as well as cooking, and tending babies.

Turf
Animals
Yards
The Potato and Other Crops

Print collection of Maggie Land Blanck

WOMEN GRINDING CORN IN IRELAND

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BREEDING POULTRY TO PAY THE RENT

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A COTTAGE INTERIOR

The Illustrated London News, April 24, 1886

This image shows several chores; cooking, laundry and spinning


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Illustrated London News, July 16, 1870

Sketches from Ireland; Spinning Net Thread in the Cladagh, Galway


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Sketches from Ireland; Woman Making Nets in the Claddagh Galway

Undated.


See also
People
Turf
Animals
Yards
The Potato and Other Crops

Mathias Langan
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