School: Cill Chais, Cluain Meala (roll number 596)
- Location:
- Kilcash, Co. Tipperary
- Teacher: Pádraig Ó Dubhghail
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0568, Page 312
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- (continued from previous page)field which marks the place where ti was burnt. There are still lime kilns around the place but hey are not used.
There are few people around Kilcash still able to make sugán chairs and they are also to be seen in few houses around here at the present time.
Coady the drafter, used always make harness long ago. He used lodge in whatever house he would be working in and in that way he earned his living. He was called Coady the drafter because when he would be mending the harness he would always sit inside the door where the draft would be coming in. Cahill the weaver who lived in Toor was also a weaver.
People sent in the wool to the Carrick mills to be manufactured. There was a man named Butler living in Brenormore who was able to print wallpaper.
- Collector
- C. Murphy
