School: Cnoc na Groighe (B.), Ráth Mhór
- Location:
- Knocknagree, Co. Cork
- Teacher: Diarmuid Ó Muimhneacháin
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- (continued from previous page)unsalted butter which they rubbed with a cloth. Connie "the tins" Cronin made and repaired tins. He was the only man around here who could do it.
Jer Twomey was able to repair clocks. - Before matches came into use the people lit their fires by kindling the fire each night and they had coal lighting in the morning. If they had no coal they had to go to their neighbours for a coal. If their neighbour had no coal they lit cotton by rubbing flint and steel together and the cotton between them. They rubbed them together until the cotton lit.
To polish boots they burned straw and(continues on next page)