School: Tankerstown (roll number 15304)
- Location:
- Tankerstown, Co. Tipperary
- Teacher: Thom. F. Meagher
Archival Reference
The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0575, Page 388
Image and data © National Folklore Collection, UCD.
See copyright details.
DownloadOpen data
Available under Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)
- XML School: Tankerstown
- XML Page 388
- XML “Homemade Candles and Lamps”
Note: We will soon deprecate our XML Application Programming Interface and a new, comprehensive JSON API will be made available. Keep an eye on our website for further details.
On this page
- Home Made Candles and Lamps
In the old days candles were made from melted fat which was poured into a mould.
A bit of cotton thread being run down through the middle of the mould: this was the wick.
Through the candles so made were soft they gave fairly good light.
When paraffin oil came into use a certain kind of lamp was used.
This was made out of a bottle with a cork.
The cork had a small piece of tube like a steel pen running through it. This was to carry a wick made of cotton down to the paraffin in the bottle.
These lamps were in common use in this locality.
- Collector
- Lily Kennedy
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Ballygorteen, Co. Tipperary
- Informant
- Mr Ned Hogan
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Ballygorteen, Co. Tipperary
