School: Séipéal na Carraige (roll number 5478)
- Location:
- Rockchapel, Co. Cork
- Teacher: Donncha Ó Géibheannaigh
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0351, Page 142
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- (continued from previous page)and the candle pulled out by means of the nail that was tied to the wick.
In this way they had sheep light. They had no lamps in those days, but they did not burn much light for the people went to bed almost with the day-light. They believed in the old saying -
"Early to bed and early to rise.
Makes a man healthy, wealthy and wise."
------------------------------------------------------Dip Candles
When a cow was killed, they got the tallow and put it in a pot over the fire until the tallow was melted. They got two chairs and a dozen twigs. These twigs were placed from the back of one chair to the next. They got pieces of cotton thread and cut them double the length of a candle.
The threads were then hung in the double across the sticks a little distance away from each other, five or six on each stick. The pot of hot tallow would be brought near the chair. Each stick of threads was taken off the chair and the threads dipped into the tallow, taken out, and held over the pot for a second to drop, then placed on the chairs again.
This was done to each twig of threads. When the last one was done, they started at the(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Ita O Shea
- Gender
- Female
- Informant
- Nicholas Walsh
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Knockahorrea East, Co. Cork
