Curraghs are still used on many parts of the western coast of Ireland; but they are now covered with tarred canvas instead of skins.
She spoke in her delirium of many things, prattling like a child about the sea and curraghs of Frosses going out beyond Trienna Bar in the grey dusk of the harvest evening.
The curraghs of Frosses were putting out from the shore; the bare-footed men hurried along the strand, waving their arms and moving their lips, but making no sound.
He describes the shipping of pigs at Kilronan on the North Island for the English market: 'when the steamer was getting near, the whole drove was moved down upon the slip and the curraghs were carried out close to the sea.
The whole slip was covered with amass of sobbing animals, with here and there a terrified woman crouching among the bodies and patting some special favourite, to keep it quiet while the curraghs were being launched.
His own especial room in the house was the little book-encased closet, looking over the Curraghs toward the sea--the same that had been the study of Gilcrist Mylrea, before he went away and came back as bishop.
Before he had been five days in Michael and on theCurraghs the sickness began to abate.
Two he left where they then stood to guard that outlet to the Curraghsof the north and west.
The solid wave of heat had gone; the ground had become dry and the soil light; and no fetid vapors floated over the Curraghs at midday.
It was then very dark across the mountains, and the sea lay black beyond the cliffs, but the Curraghs were dotted over with the many fires which had been kindled about the infected houses.
Half of the men he sent up into the mountains to cut gorse and drag it down to the Curraghs in piles of ten feet high, tied about with long sheep lankets of twisted straw.
Thorkell's bedroom in his new house on Slieu Dhoo looked over the Curraghsto the sea.
The sickness spread rapidly, and passed from the Curraghs to the country south and east of them.
It was a little, quiet nest of a room that looked out by one small window over the marshy Curraghs that lay between the house and the sea.
The journey to Douglas he called crossing the Pyrenees; and he likened the toilsome tramp across the heavy Curraghs from Bishop's Court to Kirk Andreas to the passing of pilgrims across a desert.
There was dancing, too, and fiddling, and the pipes at intervals, and all went merry until midnight, when the unharmonious harmonies of fiddle and pipes and unsteady song went off over the Curraghs in various directions.
Here we dropped anchor about five hundred yards from shore and commenced unloading our cargo into the sea, to be taken care of by a great crowd of curraghs which swarmed about the ship.
Tanned leather was used for various purposes, one of the principal being as material for shoes; and we know that curraghsor wicker-boats were often covered with leather.
I have reached it only from the sea, and never anywhere in Ireland have I seen people so far removed from civilization as rowed out in theircurraghs to meet us.
And I know a man in this island saw curraghs and curraghs full of people about the island of a Sunday morning early, but I never saw them myself.
With regard to suitable plants for comparatively deep water in ponds or lakes, lakewort and stonewort grow on the bottom, and do not, as a rule, attain any considerable height.
Small Ephemeridæ seem to me preferable to any other flies.
The whole slip was covered with a mass of sobbing animals, with here and there a terrified woman crouching among the bodies and patting some special favourite, to keep it quiet while the curraghs were being launched.
There were sharks, and whales too, on the coasts of Caledonia in those days, and the curraghs were small protection against such monsters; but the hearts of the mariners were stout and their faith was strong.
The holy island had its little fleet of curraghs which varied in size according to the number of ox-hides used in their construction.
There is a large number of open row boats and curraghs on the three islands of Aran, but that is their only mode of fishing; and they can only fish at short distances from the land, and cannot fish except in suitable weather.
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