School: Curratavy
- Location:
- Corratawy, Co. Cavan
- Teacher: E. Ó Gallchobhair
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0964, Page 007
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- (continued from previous page)put on the fire for a few hours. They the small fragments that could not be rendered were taken out and they would add a chemical powder called lye something like the potash we have nowadays. Then they would put it on again and let it render for a few more hours. Then it was taken off the fire and left to cool then it was semi-solid.
They would then take it out of the pot the next day. It was then cut into square pieces about the size of a bb nowadays. It stores and used as they wanted it. The kind of storage the had was a rod affair with wooden ends in it about 2 ft. in length an 9ins in width and 9 ins deep. It was hung with ah "sgoith" rope from the ribs of the house prepared and all for use. When they would want any of it they had a large box in the house called a chest and they would stand on it. This chest was in every house at the time.
- Collector
- Padhraigh Mach Samhrain
- Gender
- Male
