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School: Duxtown, Rathkeale (roll number 15943)

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Duckstown, Co. Limerick
Teacher:
Agnes O' Grady
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0500, Page 624

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    A Home made lamp
    Get a bottle and fill it with paraffin oil. Then get a spool and cut one side off it to fit the head of the bottle. Then put a tin tube through the spool and draw wick yarn through the tube then you would light it, and the lamp is made.
    Transcribed by a member of our volunteer transcription project.
    History Edit
    Language
    English
    Collector
    Seán Ó Cathasaigh
    Gender
    Male
    Address
    Ballyea, Co. Limerick
    Informant
    David Frawley
    Gender
    Male
    Address
    Duckstown, Co. Limerick