School: An Corrbhaile

Location:
Corbally, Co. Clare
Teacher:
Máirtín Mac Coitir
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0627, Page 344

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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0627, Page 344

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  1. Long ago the people had funny ways for making things. Candles: The way the old people had for making candles was to melt tallow and dip a rush in it. After a while it was taken out and left across two standards until i had hardened up.
    Houses:- The old people had not an ideal of how to build stone houses. They made wicker work houses. They also build a fortress all round for fear of robbers entering.
    Querns:- The old people had no mills, to grind the wheat. But if they had no mills they had things called querns.
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    Topics
    1. activities
      1. economic activities
        1. trades and crafts (~4,680)
    Language
    English
    Informant
    Gerald Harvey
    Gender
    Male