School: Baile Mac Rabhartaigh (roll number 3978)
- Location:
- Ballymagrorty, Co. Donegal
- Teacher: Mícheál Ó Fiannaidhe
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 1032, Page 219
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- (continued from previous page)He puts on the thatch first. Then he has a knife for cutting it and then he puts scollops on it to keep it on. Scollops [?] are long thin rods cut from a sally bush. The man of the house paints the scollops a few days before the thatching is done.Lime BurningThis is the way you burn lime. You get a cart of good turf first and put them into the kiln first. Then you quarry the stones and breake [break?] them with stone hammers and put a coat of them in on the top of the turf. You get a few coals and burn all together. When these are burned you put in more turf and more stones on top of it.
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