School: Clochar na Trócaire, Dún Drongáin (roll number 7232)
- Location:
- Drangan, Co. Tipperary
- Teacher: Siúracha na Trócaire
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- Culm Balls for fuel are made extensively here in this district. The fine slack of the coal is carted from the colleries of Slievardagh and in late years from Wolf-Hill by motor lorries. The coal or slack is ground into a fine state by pounding it with a pounder until all lumps are made into a very fine state. Yellow clay is got in quarries and is then mixed in the proportion of a shovel of clay to a hundred-weight of culm or slack. The two are mixed well together. The mixture is then watered. thoroughly, and while in a soft state, it is walked on by men, or(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Josephine White
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Rathkenny, Co. Tipperary
- Informant
- Teresa Magner
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Mullinahone, Co. Tipperary