School: Mullach na Sídhe (C.) (roll number 15426)
- Location:
- Fairymount, Co. Roscommon
- Teacher: Bean Uí Dhubhthaigh
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- (continued from previous page)There used to be no candles brought long ago. They gathered rushes & peeled them & dipped them in greese until they would stiffen then the used them.Broom making.
They pulled heath & put it together & tie them with strings & made brooms.Brushes
Some people in this locality make brushes from horse hair they get a back of an old brush & get some horse hair & they make brushes better than you would buy. There is a man called Andrew Creaton in my village is great & Jimmey Higgins also in my village can make them.- Collector
- Mary Ellen Drury
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Leitrim, Co. Roscommon