School: Rear Cross, Newport (roll number 12124)
- Location:
- Rear Cross, Co. Tipperary
- Teacher: Pilib Ó Muireadhaigh
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- (continued from previous page)get grease and fat and melt them and roll it round with a roller. Next when that was done they used get a long needle and drive it down through the middle of it and make a hole down through it. Then they used get a strong cord and grease it, so as to make it hard and strong. Then they used get a mould and put it into it to harden and then put in the cord and the candle was made.
- People long ago used make their own candles, with tallow and rushes. There was a man by the name of Tim Walsh, townland of Rear Cross, Newport, Co. Tipp., who used to make the candles for a certain amount of people. The way he used make them is he would get tallow and rushes. He used melt the tallow on a cinder. Then he used pour in the tallow to a pipe about the size of our candles and leave it get soft. He would put a peeled rush through the middle. They used let it get hard before they would light it.(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Kathleen O' Connor
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Rear Cross, Co. Tipperary
- Informant
- James O' Connor
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Rear Cross, Co. Tipperary
