School: Clochar

Location:
Clogher, Co. Mayo
Teacher:
M. Ó Gealbháin
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    in use.
    Their light was bogdeal splenters, thinly made and well dried in the hop? these they lit and took round the house when they wanted to get anything. But many had rush candles. They peeled the skin off the rush and steeped the soft inside pulp in melted tallow.
    For a lantern they often used a burning coal stuck on the top of stick.
    Transcribed by a member of our volunteer transcription project.
    Topics
    1. genre
      1. belief (~391)
        1. folk belief (~2,535)
    Language
    English
    Collector
    Bridget Mary Hughes
    Gender
    Female
    Address
    Ballydavock, Co. Mayo