School: Ednacarnon (roll number 3523)

Location:
Edenacarnan South, Co. Donegal
Teacher:
Máire, Bean Staráid
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 1081, Page 195

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  3. XML “Old Crafts - Candle-Making”
  4. XML “Old Crafts - Spinning and Weaving”
  5. XML “Old Crafts - Dyeing”

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  1. Candle-making used to be a well-known craft in this district. Rich people had an article with holes in it to make them. Poor people cut rushes and winnowed them. Then they took the inside out of them and after that they put tallow in a pot and put it on the fire. Then they put the inside of the rushes into the pot of tallow and took them out again and dried them. They did this two or three times in succession till they had them as thick as a candle is made nowadays.
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    Topics
    1. activities
      1. economic activities
        1. trades and crafts (~4,680)
          1. candle-making (~728)
    Language
    English
    Collector
    Eliza Elliott
    Gender
    Female
    Address
    Rathdonnell, Co. Donegal
    Informant
    Mrs W. Elliott
    Gender
    Female
    Age
    54
    Address
    Rathdonnell, Co. Donegal
  2. Spinning and weaving used to be greatly carried on in this district. First the people teased the wool, next they put butter on it. After that they carded it with "cards". They they spun it with a spinning wheel. Then they made "cuts" out of the thread on a reel. Then they wove it with a hand-loom.
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  3. After the people spun the wool, then they dyed it. They dyed the thread, called the 'Warp," a green colour with heather, And the "Woof" a light-brown colour with stuff which grows on rocks called "cruttle". These two threads when woven together made
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