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FROM 1830 - 1860 > TRANSPORT & TRADE |
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Jaunting Car The most widely used form of transport in Ireland in the mid 19th century remained the jaunting car. It was popular in both town and ... |
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Connaught Mail Ship The introduction of iron ships meant bigger ships. In the mid 19th century the vast increase in mail across the Irish Sea increased ... |
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Butter Market Farmers made butter at home and then sent it to a butter market. Cork, which had fine grazing land for dairy cattle, produced a lot of ... |
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Celtic Iron ships had an extra advantage over sailing ships because they could carry such heavier cargo. One of the first iron ships built by ... |
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Clipper Clippers were very fast sailing ships widely used in the middle of the 19th century. Their main function was to transport tea from ... |
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Dublin Turf Market This sketch of a turf market in Dublin in the 1830s shows turf being bought and sold. The turf was brought in on donkeys and carried ... |
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Market in Cushendall During these years the area outside Turnly’s Tower, the local jail in Cushendall, was used as a market place. Traders would set up ... |
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Private Carriage Rich landowners still retained their own coach driver and carriage. This was adequate for short journeys. |
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Horse-drawn Cart Most goods were still moved by horse and cart. They also carried goods to and from the rail stations. The image shows carts on Belfast’s ... |
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Road Building In many poor parts of the west public works schemes were engaged in road building during the Famine. Many of these new roads, some of ... |
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