School: Kilskeer (C.) (roll number 1563)

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1. Local Crafts (continued)

   

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   There was a man living in Crosakiel named Thomas Donnelly who used to make baskets. He would make them with sally rods. He was blind. He used to distribit them in Crossakiel.
   Collected by
   Rose Darby
   Martinstown
   Crossakiel
   Kells, Co. Meath
   My mother Mrs Darby told me thse crafts

   

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2. Rush Candles

   

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   My father told me that he saw my great-grandmother make "rush candles". First of all he said that she would gather bundles of rushes, (tall ones). She would cut about 6 ins of the top of them - the withered part of them. She would get sheeps fat and melt it in a "grisset". A "grisset" was a thing like the bottom of a pot with three legs on it. It was shaped like a boat. She would get the half of each rush and dip them in the fat. She would leave them up to dry on a "hurdle". There were candle-

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   Topics

   1. activities
      1. economic activities
         1. trades and crafts (~4,680)
            1. candle-making (~728)

   Language

   English

   Collector

   Monica Darby

   Gender

   Female