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Rope Walk
In the 18th century Cork city enjoyed an economic boom largely based on the supply of material and provision to the Royal Navy. Among the materials supplied were rope and sail cloth. Rope Walk, off Sunday's Well Road, was the site of a rope-walk where ropes were formed by the process of laying and stranding lengths of spun yarn.
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