School: Killurney, Cluain Meala
- Location:
- Killurney, Co. Tipperary
- Teacher: Máire de Brún
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- get a small packet of saltpetre put it in a half pint of water and boil it. Then get a piece of calico or thick black paper and soak the calico or black paper in the saltpetre. This is now called touche. Then get a glassey black stone which is called flint ; tear a bit of the touche and leave it on the flint, then get a piece of steel strike the flint with the steel and sparks will fly on to the touche and it will light like a match.
- Collector
- Delia Harvey
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Ballyknockane, Co. Tipperary
- Informant
- Mrs Harvey
- Relation
- Parent
- Gender
- Female
- Age
- 48
- Address
- Ballyknockane, Co. Tipperary