School: Ballinacarrow (roll number 13277)
- Location:
- Ballynacarrow, Co. Sligo
- Teacher: Seán Ó Duibheannaigh
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- (continued from previous page)these were made from bees wax. It was customary sometimes to make an immense candle sometimes as thick as a man's head with a great bushy wick, which was always kept burning in his presence at night.
- Collector
- Sally Mullen
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Rathnarrow (O'Hara), Co. Sligo
- Informant
- Mrs J. Lie
- Relation
- Grandparent
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Coolaney, Co. Sligo