School: Mullinahone (C.) (roll number 15363)
- Location:
- Mullinahone, Co. Tipperary
- Teacher: Máire Ní Shéaghdha
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0560, Page 316
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- XML “Pipes and Tobacco”
- XML “Pipes and Tobacco”
- XML “Rush Candles”
- XML “Manure for Wheat”
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- (continued from previous page)- with a needle. He would then rub the blood in the broken parts of the pipe and place them together in the right position. A lighting match held around the pip would unable it to stick.
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- Collector
- Mary Gleeson
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Kilvemnon, Co. Tipperary
- Informant
- Philip Gleeson
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 47
- Occupation
- Farmer
- Address
- Kilvemnon, Co. Tipperary
- The rushes were got in boggy places. They used to be cut and tied in bundles and then brought home. Then they were peeled, dried, and saved for about a week. The rushes were then dipped into talllow, then left to set and then dipped again. Then they were hung up in the ceiling ready for use.
- Skin field, burn sods and then spread on field.
