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I picture two workers at the kiln in Ussey tending a lime burn and arguing over whose turn it was to stay awake, each suddenly remembering an urgent job at home. The fire would need watching all the same, and the man with the weakest excuse would be handed another shovel.
From the National Monuments Service (Archaeological Survey of Ireland) record GA007-134
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- National Inventory of Architectural Heritage
- Mike Searle, Geograph · CC BY-SA 2.0
- Mike Searle, Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 2.0
- Didier Descouens, Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 4.0
- AmandaMcCrann, Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 4.0
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