School: Briscula, Mountrath (roll number 15197)
- Location:
- Briscula, Co. Laois
- Teacher: Bean Uí Choinnigh
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0833, Page 052
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- An old man named Denis Keenan now aged eighty five told me that there were distilleries in Cualdra in Kevinsheath and also in the "Ten Penny Acres" about half a mile from Briscoli school. The "Ten Penny Acres" were so called because the people had to pay ten pence as a revenue or rent to the then landlord.
Lime was burned in Kilns. Rush candes were made around this locality by all the older people. My father told me he often made them and we have still the candlestick at home used to hold Rush candles.
My father still makes baskets and scibs of sally rods as do many men of the district.
We have an old instrument at home which my grandfather used to peel the bark off the trees. He as well as many of the small farmers of the locality carried loads of bark to the tanneries in(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Nora Phelan
- Gender
- Female
- Informant
- Denis Keenan
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 85
