School: Oram (roll number 8496)
- Location:
- Oram, Co. Monaghan
- Teacher: P. McMahon
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- Long ago when there were no lamps people made candles out of resin and calico.
First of all they boiled the resin in a "griset". A grisit was like a little three legged pot. They boiled the resin so as to melt it. When they had the resin melted they got a thin stripe of calico for a wick and dipped it into the resin. As the melted resin is very "sticky" it stuck to the calico. Then they rolled it out on a board so as to make the candle round. Sometimes they peeled the skin from the rushes and made the wicks out of the inside of them.
ong ago when there were no lamps people made candles
