School: Drumbaragh (roll number 10801)
- Location:
- Drumbaragh, Co. Meath
- Teachers: M. Brighid Bean Uí Draoighneáin
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0703, Page 435
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- (continued from previous page)because one with the leather when tanned. The farmers round supplied hides.
- Tanning was a great industry in this county of Meath, up to about fifty years ago, but now the industry has died out and only in a few places are there traces of it. At Bensfort on the Kells-Oldcastle road, about 2 miles beyond Drumbaragh there was tanning carried out. The vats are still to be seen.
The hides were cut into lengths and put into vats of brine. They were left for some days in the brine to make them soft and clean. They were then put into vats with the bark of oak, again.
The oak contains tannin. They were left there for about 12 months. The leather then had taken in the preserving qualities from the oak. Then the leather was tanned and prodiced magnificent leather.(continues on next page) - Collector
- Josephine Thornton
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Kells, Co. Meath
- Informant
- H. Mulvany
- Age
- 54
- Occupation
- Civil servant
- Address
- Kells, Co. Meath
