School: Brideswell (roll number 15413)
- Location:
- Brideswell, Co. Roscommon
- Teacher: Pádraig Ó Súilleabháin
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0268, Page 239
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- The people long ago made candles out of goose-grace.
They had a round piece of iron with a hole down through it. Then they would get a string and catch the string at the bottom of the iron and another person would hold the string at the top. Then they would melt the goose grace and pore it into the hole in the iron. They would leave it in the iron until it would be hard. Then they would take out the candle.
