School: Kilmaganny, Thomastown
- Location:
- Kilmaganny, Co. Kilkenny
- Teacher: C. Ó Hurdail
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- Collector
- John Forde
- Gender
- Male
- Mr Barnse, who lived a few miles from Kilmoganny made candles. He put fat & a certain amount of water in a pot to boil & this made liquid. He put ten strings on a stick & put that across the pot leaving the strings dip into it. Each string consited of four threads of a certain kind of hemp. Now & then, he put the strings up & down in the pot & and each time some of the liquid stuck to the strip. When he had enough on the strip, he took them off the stick & rolled them on a level board to finish off his candles.
- Mr Shelly, Callan made tallow candles. Fat of cows he used. He softened it in a pot & kept dipping the wick (cotton) into it until it was the required thickness.