School: Cillín
- Location:
- Killeen, Co. Mayo
- Teacher: Pádraic Ó Hubáin
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0140, Page 518
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- (continued from previous page)times as a barrel. The pans were made of metal. Those pans were filled with salt water. Big fires were put under those pans. The salt water in those pans were boiled into salt. The water was spilled out of the pans. The salt was brought home and left near the fire to dry. If the day was good the sun dried the salt.Told by:-
Pat Doherty
Muingreevagh
Ballycastle
Mayo
- Long ago blacksmiths made the spades that the people used. Those spades were like a turf-spade. The blacksmiths also made their own coal. They built a large fire of black turf out on the street and when all the [?] were coals they were covered with clay and allowed to quench slowly. They were left there for one night. Next day they were taken and burned as coal.
- Collector
- Children of Killeen National School
- Informant
- Peter Doherty
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Knockaun, Co. Mayo
