School: Cill Cruim / Killocrim (roll number 17072)
- Location:
- Killacrim, Co. Kerry
- Teacher: Micheál Óg Ó Catháin
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0407D, Page 24_016
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- This is how the people long ago used make candles. They would bury the fat of cattle in the bogs and leave it there until it would be fit to melt it and run it into shapes. Then they put a sop of rushes in the middle of the candle, that's what they had instead of a wick.
The people long ago used dye their clotheswith the juice of wood-sorrel. The wood-sorrel would be boiled in a large pot and the leaves would be taken out and the garment boiled in the liquid. They used also make dye of the branches of an alder tree and of the roots of heather.
The people used make ropes of hay called sugans, that is a custom yet.
- Collector
- Cáit Ní Dhuilleáin
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Killacrim, Co. Kerry
- Informant
- John Dillon
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Ennismore, Co. Kerry
