School: Gowran (C.)
- Location:
- Gowran, Co. Kilkenny
- Teacher: Máiréad Ní Chuinn
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- Thatching houses were very plentiful long ago, but there is only a few in the country, now they were also warm. Long ago the people used to thatch their own houses but now there is only one or two thatchers in the country. The people also had their own kilns for burning lime. They used to put it on the land. There was a man and he used to make bee-hives & baskets. He used to make them out of sallies and he used to make the Bee-hives(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Nan Brennan
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Sheafield South, Co. Kilkenny
- Informant
- Mrs Brennan
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Earlsbog Commons, Co. Kilkenny