The coal thus mined was used mainly by smiths and lime burners.

The most of the architectural remains of Magnesia have been destroyed by local lime burners.

Its name comes from the lime burners who once sold lime from there for use in construction.

Smaller industry had developed alongside the river, including a mill, sawmill, brickworks and a lime burner.

The stone was sold to cutters for reuse or to lime burners for the creation of cement.

He enlisted in the militia, tried camp life with Gypsies, and worked in Pickworth as a lime burner in 1817.

These were owned by George Woods and Albert Nelson, a lime burner and boarding house operator respectively.

The associated trades of blacksmith, saddler and carpenter etc. were supplemented by stonemasons and lime burners, there being good quality limestone in the parish.

John Clare, when working as a lime burner, used to drink at the Flowerpot Inn, which is now the private house, Flower Pot Cottage (former Stonecroft).

They were Askeaton A and B hurling team, Southern Chemicals (the locals referred to as the Lime Burners) and the Ballysteen Lodge Rangers.

In 1846 these lime and Roman cement workings were purchased by William Lee, a lime burner from Burham who had already taken up residence at Holborough Court three years earlier.

Eventually, though, some found work as lime burners at brickworks around the Remigiusberg, as miners in the surrounding coal and mercury mines or as textile workers in the new mills in Kusel.

They are upper caste of cement-makers and lime burners who seem once to have been Marathas but to have formed themselves into a separate class by adopting the occupation of lime and charcoal burners.

A muster roll for the parish includes one labourer, two miners, three farmers, one lime burner, one husbandryman, two blacksmiths, one carpenter and a tyler, with others making a total of 35 - this is for fighting men (when called) with weapons in the parish.

It speculated that their common root were the mostly Christian Tamil-speaking Paravars, The other groups were the Canarese-speaking Paravars, who were umbrella makers and devil-dancers; and the Malayalam-speaking Paravars, who were lime burners, gymnasts, midwives and shell collectors.

There was also a Thomas Steers, lime burner of Greenwich (probably the owner and/or digger of "Jack Cade's Cavern" and of a nearby sand mine) who was born about this time and in the right area, but who was probably not the same person.