School: Cnoc na Groighe (B.), Ráth Mhór
- Location:
- Knocknagree, Co. Cork
- Teacher: Diarmuid Ó Muimhneacháin
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0358, Page 002
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- (continued from previous page)Limestone:-
The government opened a quarry in Ballydesmond and they used give it free to the farmers in the Crown lands.Fire stone
was got at the hills (The Two Paps 6 miles south)The kiln-makers were -
Charlie Callaghan, Tim MacCarthy, Con Moriarty, Tim Moriarty, John, Tim and Dan CallaghanKilns:-
Poor people who could not build stone kilns would make a round hole in a rampart of turf and fill it up with turf and burn it in such a way that it would put a hard crust around it and them limestone was broken very small and burned in it. There were three of these kilns in Tureen. Blasting Kilns:-
very rich people had blasting kilns. There was an iron grate at the bottom of it and the fire was put at the bottom underneath the grate. The limestone was not broken at all. It was thrown in as it came(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Seán Ó Cróinín
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Scrahan, Co. Cork
- Informant
- Seán Ó Connaill
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 80
- Informant
- Siobhán Uí Chonnaill
- Gender
- Female
- Age
- 83
