School: Newtownbarry (B.) (roll number 3633)
- Location:
- Bunclody, Co. Wexford
- Teacher: Bháitear Ua Giollarnath
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0892, Page 179
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- (continued from previous page)179The bricks were used in local Convent and in houses on Church Rd. Stopped in 1914.Burning of Lime.
Several lime-kilns in district. Two where Golf Links are now. There was one at Drumderry, Bunclody, and ten or twelve near Kildavin, Co. Carlow, in Crow's Grove. Lime-stone is not local. Only small round stones in sand-pits. Deposits of ice glacier.
Fishing.A kind of net called cuidéal was used. A three piece net for salmon. Used in the river Slaney. It was called a purse net. It had a wire hoop in mouth to keep it open.
They were set on a Weir gap. Spears and gaffs were used on small rivers.Fowling.A trap net was used to catch pluver (pilibín).
- Informant
- G. Morrissey
- Gender
- Unknown
- Address
- Bunclody, Co. Wexford
