School: Colehill (B.), Mullingar (roll number 14672)
- Location:
- Colehill, Co. Longford
- Teacher: Peadar Ó Coigligh
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0750, Page 039
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- (continued from previous page)in this Parish called Mike Murtagh of Tashinny.
- There was no soap making but instead the people used stale urine an sheep's manure to wash the clothes.
A man would notice the people in the district to keep the urine. Then two men would go around with a tub and gather it up. The stale urine was mixed with the sheeps manure and the clothes were washed in this. - When the old people had a house roofed and ready for thatching they would sheet the roof with bog scraws. Then they would cut sedge or rushes to put underneath to save the straw.(continues on next page)