School: Rath, Birr
- Location:
- Rathmount, Co. Offaly
- Teacher: Mrs. E. Dillon
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0822, Page 116
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- Séamus De Búrca told me that his father burned lime when he was alive.
First of all he got the lime stones out of a lime stone quarry and put them into a lime kiln then he got turf and colum which he put beside the lime stones in the kilns then he lit a big fire which burned the lime stones into lime.
Next he filled the lime into sacks which he sold to the people in the district.
- Collector
- Roisín Ní h-Áodha
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Raheenglass, Co. Offaly
- Informant
- Séamus de Búrca
- Gender
- Male
