School: Cill Choinnigh (roll number 13563)
- Location:
- Kilkenny, Co. Donegal
- Teacher: Séamus Mac Giolla Eoin
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 1053, Page 227
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- Burning of Lime.
Long ago most of the people burned their own lime.
They built a lime kiln near a lime-stone quarry. When they had enough limestone lifted they would make the lime kiln ready.
First the[y] would put a little wall of stone like a pipe in from the hold in the kiln. Then they would put in turf and then the limestone and they would get a coal and light a fire in the pipe. The turf underneath the lime would catch fire and they would burn the lime. There was not a lime kiln at every house. Two or three men would go together and burn the lime.
By Bridget Mullins
Information from Mrs Mary Boyce, Mulnamina, Glenties, (76 years).
- Collector
- Bridget Mullins
- Gender
- Female
- Informant
- Mrs Mary Boyce
- Gender
- Female
- Age
- 76
- Address
- Mulnamin Beg, Co. Donegal
