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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0948, Page 102

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    Long ago the people made their own candles at home. They bought a pound or two of rosin, and they would get the bottom of a broken metal pot, and they would put the rosin on it on the fire until it would be melted.
    They they would get four or five threads of cotton about a foot long and when the rosin was melted, they would hold the thread in one hand, and they would put the rosin round it with the other hand, one end with the threads out and the other end closed up, and when it was finished people could light it and use
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    History Edit
    Topics
    1. activities
      1. economic activities
        1. trades and crafts (~4,680)
    Language
    English
    Collector
    Packie Mc Carvill
    Gender
    Male
    Age
    14
    Address
    Drumhillagh, Co. Monaghan
    Informant
    Pat Mc Carville
    Relation
    Parent
    Gender
    Male
    Age
    64
    Occupation
    Farmer
    Address
    Drumhillagh, Co. Monaghan