School: Páirc Uí Líathain, Killenaule
- Location:
- Lanespark, Co. Tipperary
- Teacher: Pilib Mac an Fhailghe
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- (continued from previous page)to suck up the by-products of combustion which are harmful if not dangerous when breathed.
The fire is started by using inflammable material, such as paper, dry wood, turf or a little sea-coal. Then the anthracite, broken small, is added gradually until a glowing fire is built up. This fire gives off no black smoke and very little or no flame. Like the culm fire, it is never poked and it is even more fickle than a culm one in this respect. If you poke it from above, you bring down the top layers which are giving off the most sulphur dioxide and once this layer, or a portion of it, reaches the bottom of the grate the up-draught suction of the flue causes the dioxide to ascend through the glowing mass and arrests further combustion. The fire so poked goes out.
Culm and stone-coal are sometimes used together. In this case the native coal is added to the top of the culm fire. The combination makes a good, lasting fire which needs replenishing only once or twice in the course of a day. The anthracite coal fire requires from time to time to be stimulated, when it goes low,(continues on next page)
