School: Caonach (roll number 14923)
- Location:
- Keenagh Beg, Co. Mayo
- Teacher: Bean Mhic Eachmharcaigh
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0151, Page 267
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- (continued from previous page)then knit socks, jumpers, pullovers, etc. from it. Sometimes they dye these various colours with moss or onion-skins. (An account of the dyeing process s given in some of the copy-books)
There are quite a few lime-kilns in the district and people still burn their own lime. They get limestones and turf and put them in a kiln. They then light the turf an in less than an hour the whole kiln is on fire. When the lime has cooled it is put in bags and sold at 5/s a barrel.
The people use it for whitewashing their houses and stables; they throw it on potato-splits in spring to protect them until they are ready to put them in the soil, and they sometimes use it on the land as manure.
- Collector
- M. Nic Eachmharcaigh
- Gender
- Female
- Occupation
- Múinteoir
