‘Keep your Water Boys’, Exhortation from Woman of The House at Ardfield, Clonakilty, West Cork, 1890s to use Urine for Clothes Washing in Lodging House Attached to Cramming School where Boys, including Michael Collins, prepared for British Civil Service Examinations and collection of Urine by Donkey and Cart in Kilcrohane 1810s.

In Ardfield there was a gifted teacher who after school prepared boys for the British Civil Service Exams. The boys came from a wide area and lodged in an attic in a local house. the woman of the house was anxious that the night water be retained for clothes washing.

It recalls many old uses for urine in dyeing wool for example in Kilcrohane in the early 19th century.

Day with Destiny, Michael Collins, leaving Eldon Hotel, Skibbereen, West Cork, 22nd August 1922

Abbeystrewry (Skibbereen), West Cork, Church of Ireland Memoir, 1890-1990, The last ‘Caoin’ in Skibbereen, the Wren Boys, the day World War 1 ended, Tom Hosford’s school, Michael Collins on the day of his death, the first Airplane in West Cork, Protestant Businesses in Skibbereen 1890-.

Sir Michael Henry Gallwey (182-1912), mother Margaret McCarthy, Greenfield, Ardfield, Clonakilty, Co. Cork, K.C.M.G., Q.C., Leading Member of the Munster Circuit, Attorney General, Natal, South Africa, Chief Justice, Acting Governor, president Arbitration Commission of the Land Dispute between the Transvaal Republic and the Zulus, brother-in-law of James J. Murphy, Brewer, Cork

http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2011/mar/10/unusual-uses-of-urine
http://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/from-gunpowder-to-teeth-whitener-the-science-behind-historic-uses-of-urine-442390/?no-ist