School: Raharney (B.)
- Location:
- Raharney, Co. Westmeath
- Teacher: S. Ó Conmhidhe
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- Patrick Flynn aged 68 told me that long ago men made lime from lime stone. A fire is put under the stone and it burns the clay from the stone.
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- Patrick Flynn
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 68
- The burning of lime is a very old industry in this country. Long ago nearly all large farmers had their own Lime kilns as they put the Lime on their land as a fertilizer. The kiln was built in a dry field, some were built of stone, others were built of fire bricks. To make lime you would want large lime stone rocks from a quarry. In the olden days the owner of the lime kiln would burn lime with turf. He covered the floor of the kiln(continues on next page)
