School: Clochar na Toirbhirte, Lic Snámha (roll number 11849)
- Location:
- Lixnaw, Co. Kerry
- Teacher: An tSr. Gabriel
Archival Reference
The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0410, Page 375
Image and data © National Folklore Collection, UCD.
See copyright details.
DownloadOpen data
Available under Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)
- XML School: Clochar na Toirbhirte, Lic Snámha
- XML Page 375
- XML “Local Industries - Starch-Making”
- XML “Local Industries - Dye-Making”
Note: We will soon deprecate our XML Application Programming Interface and a new, comprehensive JSON API will be made available. Keep an eye on our website for further details.
On this page
- Transcription guide »
You are not logged in, but you are welcome to contribute a transcription anonymously. In this case, your IP address will be stored in the interest of quality control.By clicking the save button you agree that your contribution will be available under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License and that a link to dúchas.ie is sufficient as attribution. - The old people had many ways for making dye but the best and quickest method was to make it from the bark of trees - usually the bark of the elder tree was used. It was put into water and allowed to boil until it turned quite black, then it was used to dye clothes black. There were several ways for varying the colours of the dye, for example if a well beaten egg was added to the black the mixture turned quite yellow and thus the articles could be dyed yellow. The dye could never be used hot as it would run off the clothes again.
