School: Creganbane (roll number 14079)

Location:
Cregganbaun, Co. Mayo
Teacher:
Dáithí Mag Réill
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0137B, Page 31_035

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    How to make polish out of straw. You burn a bundle of straw and to put milk through it.
    You can dye with Scrath-cloch and Airgead-luachar bog ink and with the peels of ionuns.
    How to colour with ionans peels. You must put down water in some wide vessel and put the peels into it and when the water begins to boil you must put in whatever you are going colouring and leave them there
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