School: Straboe (roll number 12934)
- Location:
- Straboe, Co. Laois
- Teacher: Bríd Nic Cormaic
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0835, Page 146
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The way the used to make candles about seventy years ago was out of a long wheaten straw with a bit of cotton twisted all around and dipped in a bit of unsalted grease.
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Another way to make a candle was by pulling rushes on the bog and peeling them and dipping them in unsalted grease and put them in a rush candle stick.
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Another way for making a candle was bog deal cut with a knife into splinters and hung over the fire until really dry.
- Collector
- Margaret Lalor
- Gender
- Female
