School: Druim Mór (roll number 16278)
- Location:
- Dromore, Co. Sligo
- Teacher: Seosamh Ó Catháin
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- Torch-making was a great industry, in this district. The people gathered fir in the bogs. They left it beside a fire until it was quite dry. Then they put the fir into a sod of turf and the sod was as good as a candle-stick.Sometimes these torches were sold at markets in Ballina or Sligo.-
- Collector
- Michael Burke
- Gender
- Male
- Informant
- John Conlon
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 60
- Address
- Dromore West, Co. Sligo