School: St Canice's, Aghaboe (roll number 16939)
- Location:
- Aghaboe, Co. Laois
- Teacher: Aine Ní Dhubhlaoigh
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0829, Page 366
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- (continued from previous page)mould. The mould was a round piece of iron wide at one end and narrow at the other. A plug was placed in the narrow end. while the fat was being poured in. Afterwards when the grease was poured in, the twine that was sticking out at the wide end was twisted around a nail. In the morning there was nothing to be done except to catch the nail and draw out a little yellow-candle. This industry ceased about thirty years ago. Mrs Phelan, a native of Farren, who is still alive, made these candles,
and saw her mother making the rush-candles.
Soap was made out of tallow, soda, and fresh burnt lime. The mixture was boiled for some time, and then the grease united with the soda and lime. It was then let cool, and it soon became very hard. The soap is still made at Mr Clarke's house in Dairyhill by Mrs Clarke. In this district, after the people's hard day's work they sat down to do basket-work. They gathered sally and hazel-rods and they wove the hazel ones in and out through them. Then they put sally rods standing up out(continues on next page)
