School: Páirc Uí Líathain, Killenaule
- Location:
- Lanespark, Co. Tipperary
- Teacher: Pilib Mac an Fhailghe
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- Anthracite Coal.
Anthracite, obtained locally, is used as fuel throughout Slieveardagh and neighbouring distracts but culm, being cheaper per hundred-weight, is in more general use. Anthracite is known and spoken of as "stone Coal". There is no mine, properly so-called, in existence at present, but the coal is obtained by poor men, who search to old, underground workings and "poach" for "bassets" and bits of seams etc., which they bring to the surface and sell. These men even risk knocking out the old, wooden pit-props which they use for fuel.
An anthracite fire-grate is much the same in shape as that of an ordinary sea-coal one, except that it is usually somewhat wider and the iron of which it is made, is of a lighter [?scantling?], the round bars seldom being heavier than ¼inch and the frame about inch by half inch. There is a movable sieve arrangement with external ring-handle in the bottom for shaking up the fire and riddling it of its ashes. There has to be a good up-draught in the flue(continues on next page)
