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Local Trades

Abstract: Story collected by a student at Scoil na mBráthair, An Teampall Mór school (Templemore, Co. Tipperary) (no informant identified).

Original reference: 0550/2/19

 Scoil na mBráthair, An Teampall Mór [Vol. 0550, Chapter 0002]

County  The Schools' Manuscript Collection : County Tipperary Schools

Story text

transcribed at

 

Local Trades  [duchas:4859813]

About forty years ago there was lime made in nearly every farm place.  There is an old limekill on our farm where lime was made. The lime was made by putting turf in first and then stones and then "collen" and it was put fire to.

  The old way of separating the grain from the straw was done by a flail and on a windy day the hull ( the shell of the grain) is taken from the grain by the wind. The corn was crushed by dropping the grain between two flat stones and it was made into flour.

  Up to fifty years ago a flail was used for threshing the corn. It consisted of two sticks joined end to end by a twine. One was held in the hand while with the other the corn was threshed.

  The making of nails was also common fifty years ago. The wire was heated, cut and pointed.

  Tinsmiths and coopers worked in the town some fifty years ago.

Resource description

Origin information
Templemore, Co. Tipperary
Date created: –
Type of Resource
text
Physical description
p. 021
Volume 0550
Note
Collected as part of the Schools' Folklore scheme, 1937-1938, under the supervision of teacher An Br. Ó Laoghaire.
Languages
English  
Genre
Folktale
Subject
Limekilns   linked data (lcsh)
Lime burning--Dó aoil
School location
Templemore An Teampall Mór Templemore Templemore Eliogarty Tipperary
Location
https://doi.org/10.7925/drs1.duchas_4939448
Location
University College Dublin. National Folklore Collection UCD .

Original reference: 0550/2/19

Suggested credit
"Local Trades"in "The Schools' Manuscript Collection," held by University College Dublin, National Folklore Collection UCD. © University College Dublin. Digital content by: Glenbeigh Records Management, published by UCD Library, University College Dublin <https://doi.org/10.7925/drs1.duchas_4939448>
Note
Collected as part of the Schools' Folklore scheme, 1937-1938, under the supervision of teacher An Br. Ó Laoghaire.
Funding
Supported by funding from the Department of Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht (Ireland), University College Dublin, and the National Folklore Foundation (Fondúireacht Bhéaloideas Éireann), 2014-2016.
Record source
Metadata creation date: 2014/2016 — Metadata created by Fiontar, Dublin City University, in collaboration with the National Folklore Collection UCD and UCD Library. Original Fiontar metadata converted into MODS by UCD Library.

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