School: Faughalstown (roll number 9622)
- Location:
- Faughalstown, Co. Westmeath
- Teacher: Bean Mhic Gabhann
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0719, Page 571
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- There is a old Grisset in Bigwood yard in which rush-candles were made long ago. Rush-candles were made from peeled rushes and then dipped into the Grisset of grease. This Grisset in Bigwood is a big stone in the shape of a basin. There is a old wooden rush-candle stick in Grangestown. It is about three feet in height, it has a flat bottom about half a foot square, a long tapering centre and a thing like a pincers for catching the rush-candle. There is another part for a moal candle. This kind of a candle is made from the suet from sheep. The instruments they used in making these candles were called moals. This moal was about half a foot long. It was a round thing like the mouth of a bottle. When making a moal candle they(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Mary Smyth
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Grangestown, Co. Westmeath
- Informant
- Mrs Dunleavy
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Bigwood, Co. Westmeath
