School: Cavangarden (roll number 16511)
- Location:
- Cavangarden, Co. Donegal
- Teacher: Rebecca C. R. Mitchell
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 1030, Page 31
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- (continued from previous page)loop. The trahook is a piece of thick wire with a handle on it. He keeps pushing the hay into the triahook while another person twists the ropes. Care has to be taken not to break the rope as if it is broken it cannot be joined again.
- Florence Morrow’s father, Mr. Robert Morrow, Cavangarden, Co. Donegal burns his own lime. He made the limekiln himself with stones. It is about a foot higher than the ground; it is round and there is a place called the eye where the lime is taken out. The stones were got in Mr. William Patterson’s – Carrickna – horna – rock. They had to be quarried. They used crowbars and picks and had to be broken before they were put in.For the lime burning good black turf are needed. A good layer of turf is put in and a few stones and then more turf. There is an arch of turf built from the back of it out to the eye(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Florence Morrow
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Cavangarden, Co. Donegal
- Informant
- Mr Robert Morrow
- Relation
- Parent
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Cavangarden, Co. Donegal
