School: Lurga, Patrick's Well (roll number 10317)
- Location:
- Kilcolman, Co. Limerick
- Teacher: Máire, Bean Uí Bhroin
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- (continued from previous page)of the other boards, so that the boards would be pointing towards the foot of the bed. Curtains would then be procured and tacked on to the boards, in such a way that half of the curtain would be hanging down over the bed. These beds were known as "Canopy beds" or "Tasters", because the covering over the head of the bed was called a "Canopy".Recorded from Ml. McGrath,
Ballycarney,
Clarina,
Co. Limerick.
- The Making of Concrete Rollers as Home.
People made their own rollers for rolling tillage fields in this district in olden times, and the craft is carried on even to the present day.When a person wanted to make a roller, he would get laths of timber and he would form them in the shape of a roller. This being done, the person would get concrete and fill the boarded roller with it. Before the concrete would set, the person had to procure an axle called a "Gudgeon", and stick it in and out through the unset mixture. The concrete was let set for forty eight hours. After the setting, the laths were removed. It is easy to remove them, because concrete does not stick to timber.Recorded from Ml. McGrath,
Ballycarney,
Clarina,
Co. Limerick.
