School: Kilmorgan (roll number 12444)
- Location:
- Kilmorgan, Co. Sligo
- Teacher: Kathleen M. Doyle
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0183, Page 291
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- For light the olden people in Ireland had dipt candles, which were held with candlesticks, sometimes with branches-
The poorer classes used peeled rushes soaked in grease, as we sometime see at the present day.
As bees wax was so abundant, bees-wax was used. Wax candles were used in the houses of the richer classes. For a king it was customary to make an immense candle, sometimes as thick as a man's body with a great bushy wick which was always kept burning in his presence at night, in in the palace it was placed high over his head; during war it blazed outside his tent door, and on night marches it was borne before him.
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