School: Creganbane (roll number 14079)
- Location:
- Cregganbaun, Co. Mayo
- Teacher: Dáithí Mag Réill
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- How to make rush candles. You must pull a leaf of the longest rushes you can get and peel them. Melt grace then and keep pulling through it for a while, leave them up then until they get stiff. Twist them all then together and the candle is made then.How to make linen out of flax. You must sow the flax-seed and when it is ripe, to cut and stock it. Then you must put it up in a bog-hole and to(continues on next page)
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- Katie Kilcoyne
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