School: Doire an Céise (C )

Location:
Dernakesh, Co. Cavan
Teacher:
Bean Mhic Uaid
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 1017, Page 214

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  1. About one hundred years ago the people of this locality made their own candles.
    They used to cut rushes and let them wither. Then they got resin and boiled it. Then they peeled the rushes and rolled the resin round them and the rush was in the middle for a wick.
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    Topics
    1. activities
      1. economic activities
        1. trades and crafts (~4,680)
    Language
    English
    Collector
    Mary Reilly
    Gender
    Female
    Informant
    Bernard Reilly
    Gender
    Male
    Address
    Cran, Co. Cavan
  2. In days gone past some eighty or ninety years ago home weaving was a great trade particularly in Ulster, and this work was done by means of a loom made by craftsmen specially for that purpose. The man who worked the loom turned out fine webs of linen and also woollen
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