School: Cluain Uaithne Beag
- Location:
- Shannon Harbour, Co. Offaly
- Teacher: Winifred Molloy
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0816, Page 310
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- (continued from previous page)yearly rent of a number of sparrowhawks. Then there is an intimate link between the farm and marriage, making the "match", "walking the land", etc. "good" & "bad" farms traditional methods of drainage, fencing.
The "lime-kiln", as a feature of the Irish farm; is still in use; local "brick" kilns, description of, how the farmer made these "homes", bricks; and survivals of such kilns, bricks were made in the Tyholland parish, N. Monaghan down to comparatively recent times. The farmyard may next be described. The position of the farmyard in relation to the farm; the dwelling house; the byre, stable, dairy, piggery, fowl-house and their position; the "bawn"; superstitions. Creamery farmer's wives of a district pooled their butter supplies each week. Many interesting accounts of the "salting," "colouring of butter still survive.
