School: Coillte Craobhacha, Drumlish (roll number 15108)
- Location:
- Kiltycreevagh, Co. Longford
- Teacher: S. Ó Murchadha
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0758, Page 370
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- (continued from previous page)Rossan; John Carney Kiltycreevagh and Mick Quinn Fardromin. The three of them are dead now. The people used to make a black dye from bog-wood and copperis. They put the bog-wood and copperis and the clothes they were dyeing into a pot and let them boil and when they would take out the clothes they were black. There are no lime burning around this district now. But about twenty years ago everybody used to burn the lime in their own lime kilns. The remains of old lime kilns are still to be seen about the district.
- Mrs Brigid Harte, and Mrs Katherine Darcy of Cloncoose were two of the best spinners known. Thomas Davis and his father John Davis were two(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Michael Creegun
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Clooncose, Co. Leitrim
- Informant
- Mrs Brigid Harte
- Gender
- Female
- Age
- c. 84
- Address
- Clooncose, Co. Leitrim
