School: Cooneal (roll number 6416)
- Location:
- Coonealmore, Co. Mayo
- Teacher: Patrick Timbin
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0145, Page 167
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- Long ago when nobody knew how to make candles everyone made their own candles out of rushes and tallow. First they got a rush and peeled the skin off it. Then they got a saucepan and filled it with tala. They put a saucepan on the fire and left it there till it melted. Then they took it up and put some of it round a rush. Then they used to leave it in a cool place till it would harden. That is the way the candles were made.
