School: Tír na Néill (roll number 3845)
- Location:
- Tirnaneill, Co. Monaghan
- Teacher: M. Mc Cague
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0961, Page 067
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- (continued from previous page)Long ago the old floors were made of clay. In some houses there are half doors but they are not very common in the district.
Turf was usually used the fire but sometimes people burned sods and shows.
At night rush candles, resin candles, and tallow candles were burned.
Candles were sometimes made in peoples one home they would melt down fat and cut the rushes into lengths and lay them in the fat. When they would be well coated with the fat, then they were lift over to cool and harden. Then there was a little square bit of wood and the rush was set in the middle of the wood.
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- Collector
- Marjorie Stuart
- Gender
- Female
