School: Boitheach (roll number 1238)
- Location:
- Boyagh, Co. Dhún na nGall
- Teacher: Aodh Ó Dochartaigh
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 1100, Page 221
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- (continued from previous page)for a couple of days. Then they are built in fours and if the weather is good the next day they are built in tens and they are covered from the rain
When the bricks are dry they are built in a kiln to be burned. Here again much skill is required both in the building of the kiln and the burning of the bricks, because if there is too big a fire the bricks would burn into a solid mass or if the fire is too little the bricks would be too soft
