School: Ballystrang (roll number 15364)
- Location:
- Ballystrang, Co. Donegal
- Teacher: Seosamh Ó Cuinn
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- (continued from previous page)of the people go fir and made little splices of them and hung them up to dry. When they would be dry they would light them and put them in a hole in the wall. The candle-stick they used for the resin candle was a peat. they made a hole in the peat and put the candle into it. Some of the people used the light of the fire. They would put on a good fire in the evening so that it would be bright at night. To make more light they would turn a peat on the fire and then the black side of the peat would catchy fire and(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Charles Byrne
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Cark, Co. Donegal
- Informant
- Willie Kelly
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Cark, Co. Donegal