School: Ráth Morgáin (roll number 15966)
- Location:
- Ráth Muireagáin, Co. Mayo
- Teacher: Bean Uí Cholmáin
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0130, Page 435
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- This is one occupation they used to be at, at night-time long ago - Making bogdeal candles. They used to get a big stick of bogdeal out in the bogs. They used to bring it in and leave it standing in a corner beside the fire for about a week. Then they would split it up into long bits. After that they would get a drop of water and soot and mix the two of them together until the soot would be soft enough to put around the bit of bogdeal. They used to make about forty candles in one night. They used to have these candles for every night they would be working and if they would have no work to do they would go to bed as soon as it would be dark and be up at daylight.(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Mary Gaughan
- Gender
- Female
- Informant
- Pat Gaughan
- Relation
- Grandparent
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 85
