School: Monknewton (roll number 9696)
- Location:
- Monknewtown, Co. Meath
- Teacher: Maighréad Ní Mhurchadha
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0713, Page 406
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- There used to be candles made here, about sixty years ago. The people cut strong rushes and peeled them. They had a grised for melting the tallow. They used to run the rushes through the melted tallow. Then they tied them in bundles to dry. They used to have a big candlestick standing in the middle of the floor with a pincers on top of it to hold the candle.
Long ago the people got light from flint and touch. The touch was made of sulphur on paper and a spark from the flint would light it.
The people also made different kinds of mats, such as mats made from flaggers that grow along the rivers and mats made from straw. They used to cut the flaggers and let them dry, then they platted them together. The straw mats were made the same as the flagger mats, only a lot straw than flagger were used.
The people made baskets(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Mary Alice Smyth
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Dowth, Co. Meath
