School: O'Brennan, Baile Mhic Ealgóid, Tráighlí
- Location:
- An Tóin Riabhach Íochtarach, Co. Chiarraí
- Teacher: Pádraig Ó Loingsigh
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Fire cranes are still made locally principally at John Twomey's of Maglass."
I might mention that James Cournane's forge was at Potally, but his home was at Tonreigh (about a 1/4 ml. away). - You are not logged in, but you are welcome to contribute a transcription anonymously. In this case, your IP address will be stored in the interest of quality control.By clicking the save button you agree that your contribution will be available under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License and that a link to dúchas.ie is sufficient as attribution.
- Collector
- Peggy Quinlan
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Tor Saileach, Co. Chiarraí
- On walking through the district we notice a lime kiln in practically every farm. This would point to the fact that farmers burned lime very extensively in old times. Some farmers of the hill districts e.g. Reamore, Kilmore, Tylough etc still burn lime when they want it for land. They buy the lime-stone of the lowland, cart it to the kiln & use the "black turf" of their own bogs for the purpose of burning the lime: Here is Nancy Mahony's account of this
"In olden times every farmer used to burn his own lime. Mostly every farmer had his own kiln. There are(continues on next page)