School: Caroreigh (roll number 6700)
- Location:
- Carrowreagh, Co. Wexford
- Teacher: Séamas Ó Cellaigh
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0883, Page 063
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- (continued from previous page)longer you would leave it without using it the better it would get.
- Long ago the old people used to make candles for their own use. They used to get rushes in boggy land, and when they would bring them, they would peel them and dry them. The next day they would go to town and buy sheep's lard and when they would go home, they would put the lard into a pot and let it boil for about three or four hours. After that they would dip the peff of the rush in the tallow and hang it up to dry. After a couple of days they would light them.
- In olden times the people used to thresh the corn with a flail. First of all the people used to bring in about one hundred shaves of corn and put it in(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Annie Sullivan
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Poulpeasty, Co. Wexford
- Collector
- Bessie Banville
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Shanowle, Co. Wexford
- Informant
- Thomas Sullivan
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Poulpeasty, Co. Wexford
