School: Loughmoe (B.), An Teampoll Mór (roll number 7694)
- Location:
- Loughmoe, Co. Tipperary
- Teacher: Liam Ó Riain
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- (continued from previous page)a sheares. The mallet is used to drive scollops through the thatch. The rake is used to rake all the loose straws off the roof and the sheares is used to cut the eave.
- There are a ruins of a lime hill in our field. My father saw lime being burned in it. He made it with turf, colm and lime stone. It is made by burning stones with colm and turf. The turf is put in first, then the colm and then the stones.