School: The Rower (B.), Inistioge (roll number 15160)
- Location:
- The Rower, Co. Kilkenny
- Teacher: Risteárd Ó Cuirrín
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0847, Page 039
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- (continued from previous page)some time ago, and they used get great sale for their whips.
- Long ago it was the custom in the Rower to burn lime-stone in kilns. The lime-stone used come up the river on boats from Kilmacow, and other places. Those that would want the lime would get a load off the boat, and bring it to the kilns to be made into pure lime. There was a kiln or more in every townland, and it was used by the farmers in turn, according as they would want it. Lime burning is never done in this parish now, but the kilns are often used for drying wheat to fit it for milling. Lime comes to here from the midlands.
- Collector
- Patrick Galavan
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- The Rower, Co. Kilkenny
- Informant
- Mrs Galavan
- Gender
- Female
- Age
- 58
- Address
- Kilconnelly, Co. Kilkenny
- Long ago the way the people had for dyeing clothes is quite different from what it is now. In the olden times the people used to gather blackberries, and boil them in water. After they were boiled into thin liquid the clothes(continues on next page)
