The timeless art of horse ploughing at the Country Skills Day from adlie thrower Watch Video

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Last weekend the Ulster Folk Museum at Cultra, Holywood, held their annual Country Skills Day.<br/>In this video, shot by Farming Life's Darryl Armitage, we get to watch the timeless art of horse ploughing. <br/>Sadly, it is a skill that has been dying out across the country over the last few decades, but it still remains one of the most captivating of all country skills.<br/>Other skills on show at the museum that day included harness cleaning and horseshoe throwing at Cruckaclady Farmhouse.<br/>Meanwhile there was rope making at the Meenagarragh Cottier's House and horse/donkey grooming at Drumnahunshin Farm (stable area).<br/>And there was traditional stick making and harness cleaning in the Orange Hall.