School: Rear Cross, Newport (roll number 12124)
- Location:
- Rear Cross, Co. Tipperary
- Teacher: Pilib Ó Muireadhaigh
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- (continued from previous page)melt suet and tallow on the fire. They peeled a rush and put the rush into a metal mould about three inches long and coming to a point on top. They put the melted suet into the mould and when cool they brought it out.
- In olden times people in this district used not buy any candles in the shops,only make them themselves. They had a mould for making them.This is the way they used make them. First of all they would put down a saucepan on the fire and fill it up with tallow. Then then would tie on a wick to the front of the mould and keep it straight. Then they would throw all the tallow into the mould until it was full. There was a yoke on the bottom of the mould and when the tallow would be cold if you pulled down this yoke, the candle would come down, made.
- Collector
- Joan O' Toole
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Shanballyedmond, Co. Tipperary
- Informant
- Denis O' Toole
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Shanballyedmond, Co. Tipperary
- Long ago the people used never buy candles. They had their own way of making them. First they used(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Kitty Quigley
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Coonmore, Co. Tipperary
- Informant
- James Carey
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Coonmore, Co. Tipperary
