School: Timahoe (roll number 14486)
- Location:
- Timahoe, Co. Laois
- Teacher: R. O' Byrne
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0831, Page 213
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Rhody O'Byrne often saw two cart loads of butter going to the market at Carlow.
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- Collector
- James J. O' Byrne
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Timahoe, Co. Laois
- Informant
- Rhody O' Byrne
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 88
- Address
- Aghoney, Co. Laois
- Old women went around all day collecting rushes.
At night time they peeled them, leaning one piece of skin to hold the pith together; they then dipped them in the grease of fat bacon.
They sold them on the fairs and markets
Farmers bought a supply in the fall and put them in a hole in the wall beside the fire called the rush trough.
