School: Tuar an Fhíona, Baile na Molt (roll number 8133)
- Location:
- Tooraneena, Co. Waterford
- Teacher: Nóra Nic Gearailt
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0647, Page 103
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- Long ago candle-making was a great trade. Once every year there was a great day for making the candles. An outside house used to be cleaned out and the tallow rendered in great big pots. The wicks used to be made from a strong twine or the sheep's wool. Great heaps of candles used to be made and stored up for the Winter.Basket-making was also a good trade. People used to get the sallies in the glens to make the bottom first from the strongest sallies. Then they would get a strong one to form the handle.Quilt-making was carried on to a great extent in Knockboy by the Burke and Murphy families. This was hard and tedious work and it took a whole week or two to make a quilt. This was all hand-made work and the pay for a quilt was 6/=.(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Cáit Breathnach
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Ballynamult, Co. Waterford
- Informant
- Cailíní na Scoile
- Relation
- Not a relative
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Ballynamult, Co. Waterford
