School: Oylegate (roll number 5918)
- Location:
- Oilgate, Co. Wexford
- Teacher: Séamus Ó Braoin
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0886, Page 270
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- (continued from previous page)and made the baskets at night. A crowd of young boys used to come to see him making the baskets and listen to him telling stories every night. He made potato baskets and shopping baskets.
- There are the remains of several of old lime kilns down on the banks of the Slaney where the old people made lime. They used to bring the lime up the Slaney in big boats. The old people bought nothing only lime for their land. First they put on sticks and charcoal on the top. Then they put on the stones
It would light for about four days and when it would go out the(continues on next page) - Collector
- Willie Malone
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Oilgate, Co. Wexford
- Informant
- Mrs Malone
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Oilgate, Co. Wexford
