School: Loughshinny (roll number 8434)
- Location:
- Loughshinny, Co. Dublin
- Teacher: James Monks
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0786, Page 80
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“Many years ago the people had no lamps or parafin oil to burn in them.”
(continued from previous page)They made "matches" in this way. They soaked brown paper in salt peter. Then they dried it. They got a flint stone and struck sparks from it with a bit of steel. These sparks lit the brown paper and from it fires and wicks were lighted. This was the only kind of lamp we had in Loughshinny a hundred years ago.
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“One time there was a man named Val Collins who got a woar on the strand.”
One time there was a man named Val Collins who got woar the strand. Every day he saw a man going from rock to rock praying. One day Val went to the priest and told him. The priest asked him was he in prayer or devotion and Val said he was in prayer. The priest said that he was to go over and talk to him. The next day Val went over and said; is that you Paddy? What are you doing here?" The man, his brother, said that he was not(continues on next page) - Informant
- Rita Coffey
- Gender
- Female
- Age
- 26
- Address
- Hacketstown, Co. Dublin