Scoil: Lackamore, Tulach Sheasta (uimhir rolla 2428)

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1. Old Crafts (ar lean)

   

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   miles outside Newport. The limestone is got in quarries. The stone used to be broken into to small pieces and taken to the kilns. They used to fill the kilns with every second layer of colum or turf and stone. They used to light the turf or colum with lighted turf from the fire. There was a hole in the eye of the kiln, when the lime was burned it was drawn out with the shovel.

   Basket Making
   Long ago the farmers used to make their own baskets. They used to cut a bow, and they used to tie the two ends of it together. They used to put four or five rods across the end of it. They used to weave weak rods the end of it until it was made. A man named Pat Hayes used to make them who lives in Lackamore. Hampers were made in the same way also. The baskets were used to bring in turf and potatoes, also to strain the potatoes when they were boiled.

   Weaving
   In olden times (us) the farmers used to grow their own flax. When ripe it was pulled an put steeping in bog water, and spread out to dry. When it was dry it was pounded, cloved and hackled, and spun. When spun it was taken to the weaver who made into sheets and other articles. The local weaver was a man named James O'Grady of

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   Lizzie Caplis

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