School: Lios Béalad, Dún Mánmhaí (roll number 11715)
- Location:
- Lisbealad, Co. Cork
- Teacher: Conchobhar Ó Héigcearrtaigh
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- (continued from previous page)making meal and flour. In the district there are the remains of a few old kilns. In olden times people drew limestone from Castlemore and burnt it in those kilns with turf. First a fire was built, and on top of this a layer of limestone and so on until the kiln was filled. At one time a man by the name of Curly Burke of Lisbealad carried on the trade of a Weaver. The article used for making the cloth was called a loom. It required great time and hard labour to get the finished article.
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- Collector
- Julia Murray
- Gender
- Female
- Informant
- Mr Thomas Murray
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Lisbealad, Co. Cork