School: Cnoc an Chuilinn, An Ráth Mhór (roll number 9871)
- Location:
- Caherbarnagh, Co. Cork
- Teacher: Nóra, Bean Uí Dhuinnín
Archival Reference
The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0324, Page 236
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- (kiln) There was a lime kiln by every big farmer and sometimes a kiln was made by three or four small farmers. Long ago people used burn a great deal of lime and put it in the land but now it is too expensive. When a man is going to burn lime he would first draw the limestone to a kiln and break it up in smaller pieces. When that is done there are about four or five baskets of turf put in bottom of the kiln and then broken limestone and every second layer of turf and broken limestone until the kiln is full.(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Sean Long
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Knocknaloman, Co. Cork
- Informant
- Nora O Sullivan
- Relation
- Grandparent
- Gender
- Female
- Age
- 64
- Address
- Caherbarnagh, Co. Cork
