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School: Log na Daimhehe (roll number 13746)

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Lugnadeffa, Co. Sligo
Teacher:
N. Ní Roibín
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0176, Page 033

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    Their is a good many people in Ireland that used to make lamps and things like that.
    Long ago they used to make lamps out of bottles, oil, and cork, they used to fill the bottle with oil and have a good thick strick and have it in oil for to steep it, then bore a hole the size of the string so that it would not fall down in the bottle of oil.
    The people used to make wheels out of a big tree. They used to cut the bottom of the tree the with of the wheel, they used to put a bit cement round thing for the shap of the wheel, there used niver be spocks in it, then when they would have the rest of the wheel cut out
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    History Edit
    Topics
    1. activities
      1. economic activities
        1. trades and crafts (~4,680)
    Language
    English
    Collector
    Allen Mitchell
    Gender
    Male
    Age
    11
    Address
    Barnabrack, Co. Sligo
    Informant
    Mrs Mitchell
    Gender
    Female
    Address
    Barnabrack, Co. Sligo