School: Clochar na Trócaire (Convent of Mercy)
- Location:
- Skibbereen, Co. Cork
- Teacher: Na Siúracha
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0298, Page 013
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- (continued from previous page)for dying.BUTTER MAKING:-
In olden times the people made butter in a small wooden churn, with a staff attached from the inside of it and a hole in the churn through which the staff came out, when the butter was made it was then made up in firkins.ROPE MAKING:-
Ropes were made out of oakum, and hemp. The hemp was twisted by two men, one man wound it on a stick and another twisted itWHIPS:-
Whips were made out of thin leather which was platted. Coopers were also famous tradesmen these made churns, tubs, and barrels of wood.
- CANDLES :-
Long ago candles were made by means of a mould. The people put the wick which was made of rushes into a mould and they made fat or tallow into a liquid and they poured it all round the wick and left it there for a few days till it was hard and they then took it out and the candle was made.(continues on next page) - Collector
- Maigread Nic Gearailt
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Skibbereen, Co. Cork
- Informant
- Ristéard Mac Gearailt
- Relation
- Parent
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 52
- Address
- Skibbereen, Co. Cork
