School: Listellick, Tráighlí

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1. Old Crafts - Brickmaking (continued)

   

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   and John O'Brien of Listellick helped him at this brick making.

   

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2. Old Crafts - Brickmaking

   

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   Sometimes the yellow clay after being made plastic was carried to a special table and put into timber moulds the shape of a brick. It was left in the moulds for a few days. Then after hardening and shrinking it was taken out of the moulds and burned. It was then take to trade and sold to a man by the name of Horgan who gave the workers 5/ per cwt.

   

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3. Old Crafts - Lime

   

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   This is how the people around here used get lime. First of all they discovered a lime-stone quarry. Then they blasted out big rocks of the lime, next they put it in to a lime-kiln and then they put a big fire of turf under it. Next day the lime came out by itself in small little heaps. The lime-kiln was made with the bricks which were made locally.

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   Topics

   1. activities
      1. economic activities
         1. trades and crafts (~4,680)
            1. lime-burning (~280)

   Language

   English

   Informant

   Mrs O Brien

   Gender

   Female

   Age

   50

   Address

   Listellick North, Co. Kerry