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   Candle Making About eighty years ago a certain man named Ned Daly lived where Grigory Furlong is living now. He was a relation of Luke Daly the hedge school-master who taught at Katty's Rock Boley. He was a tallow-candle maker by trade he made them for people of the district. He made two sorts of candles one sort was made from bog-dale and the other was made from tallow liquid which was got from the fat of the sheep. This was boiled in a large pot then the pot was taken up he cut thin cord in foot lengths and dipped them in the pot of tallow one at a time and let them dry. He repeated this until the candles were think enough then he sold them to the people Bog-Dale - Candles. The dale was taken out of the bog and cut into lengths which were left by the fire until they were seasoned. Then they were cut into thin foot lengths. They used flint and steel and brown paper steeped in salt-petre to light them. They struck the flint and steel together and lit the brown paper. It was from this the dale candles were lit

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   Topics

   1. activities
      1. economic activities
         1. trades and crafts (~4,680)

   Language

   English

   Collector

   Maggie Kehoe

   Gender

   Female

   Address

   Yoletown, Co. Wexford

   Informant

   Peter Kehoe

   Gender

   Male

   Age

   56

   Address

   Yoletown, Co. Wexford