School: Stormanstown, Ardee (roll number 9371)
- Location:
- Stormanstown, Co. Louth
- Teacher: P. Ó Ceallaigh
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0668, Page 109
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- (continued from previous page)held the round wick. There was no screw for adjusting the wick which had consequently to be moved by means of a pin or hairpin. There was a handle on the side of the lamp. This lamp held about a half - pint of paraffin oil.
Next came a lamp with a glass bowl to which also there was a handle. This lamp had a small burner and a globe.
Then came a tin lamp with a bigger and better oil container, a flat wick, and a tin (later, glass) reflector. This lamp could be hung on the wall or stood on the table. It is still in common use.
Note:- The candlestick referred to on opposite page was a more primitive form of that illustrated on Page 164 (Fig. 220), Joyce's "Social History of Ireland," Part (II). So says Mrs Callan to whom I have shown the illustration.
- Collector
- Sean Kelly
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Cardistown, Co. Louth
- Informant
- Mrs Callan
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Cardistown, Co. Louth
