School: Colehill (B.), Mullingar (roll number 14672)
- Location:
- Colehill, Co. Longford
- Teacher: Peadar Ó Coigligh
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0750, Page 033
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- (continued from previous page)parts of the spinning wheel are, the wheel, the spindle, the teeth for cutching the wool or flax, the perm for winding the yarn on and the foot and band.
- The people made their own candles long ago, in the following way.
First the rushes were cut and peeled while green. There was one strip of the green back left. They were then tied up in dozen bundles to dry. After this old fats were rendered in a griset. A griset is an oval shaped pan, hollowed in the centre like a boat, with three feet under it. The rushes were then dipped in the grease, one by one, they were then hung up to dry.
Dipped candles
This is the way that dipped candles(continues on next page) - Collector
- Martin Doyle
- Gender
- Male
