School: Drumakill (roll number 6365)
- Location:
- Drumakill, Co. Monaghan
- Teacher: Florence Harrison
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- Long ago in this district there were people who made candles. This is how they made them. They had a pot of melted resin on the fire. They got strips of calico and rolled them round to form the wicks. Then a piece of the calico was dipped into the resin, and it was rolled on the smooth side of the hand bellows or a board to make it round. Then another piece of the calico wick was dipped and so on until the candle was long enough. A piece of calico was left hanging at one of the ends at which it could be lighted. About forty years ago an old woman called Mary Mac Guinness lived in a small house in Tullyharnett and she made candles in this way. Our teachers father often went to see her make them and used to help her.
- Collector
- Dorothy Harrison
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Church Hill, Co. Monaghan
- Informant
- Mr Robert Harrison
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 71
- Address
- Farm Hill, Co. Monaghan
