School: Kilmurry
- Location:
- Kilmurry, Co. Offaly
- Teacher: A. de Búrca
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0803, Page 164
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- (continued from previous page)wood. The next thing that is put in is a course of lime stone. Then another course of coke light turf and wood. It is continued in that way to the top. It takes about two days to fill it. When it is filled the lime burner puts in some fire at the bottom where there is a small grate. It takes five days to burn a kiln. A kiln would hold about fifty barrels of lime.
- In olden times the people dyed green with shee-heath. The heath grow in the boy. The heath has a pink flower on it. When the people are to dye they put down the heath in a pot and put water on it. They leave on it on the fire until it is well boiled then they take the water off the heath, and put the water into another vessel and then empty the heath out of the pot. Then they put the water back into the pot. The stir the water and the cloth in the pot with a stick for a while. Then the have a bucket full of cold water and finish it in the cold water. There is a tree called logwood the bark of which dyes black. When you want to dye you put the logwood into a basic and pour hot water in on top of it. The water and then turns red but it dyes black. Put what ever you(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Kate Coyne
- Gender
- Female
- Age
- 13
- Informant
- Joseph Gorman
- Relation
- Relative (other than parent or grandparent)
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 73
- Address
- Derrygrogan Big, Co. Offaly
