School: Coill Beithne (C.), Baile Mhistéala (roll number 11266)
- Location:
- Kilbeheny, Co. Limerick
- Teacher: -
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0514, Page 259
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- (continued from previous page)piggins one week would have it the next week and hand it over to the woman who had the surplus the week before.
Then the butter was salted. It took two women at a time to thoroughly salt the firkin of butter.(No wonder there was tea provided for the workers the day of filling the firkins) for with the weighing and measuring, not to mention the salting, it was well earned fare.)
The wool was brought in bags in common cars to either Caher or Clogheen.
Ropes were all homemade and made of horsehairs.
Cows were milked in wooden vessels. There were no iron vesseld but tinkers made tin gallons.
- It was to a hedge school my informant went in his early days. Work began at 9 o'clock they stopped at 3(continues on next page)
- Informant
- M. Cunningham
- Gender
- Male
