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School: Clochar na Trócaire, Dún Drongáin (roll number 7232)

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Drangan, Co. Tipperary
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Siúracha na Trócaire
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0557, Page 110

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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
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    History Edit
    Language
    English
    Collector
    Josephine White
    Gender
    Female
    Address
    Rathkenny, Co. Tipperary
    Informant
    Teresa Magner
    Gender
    Female
    Address
    Mullinahone, Co. Tipperary