School: Mount Talbot (roll number 14056)
- Location:
- Mount Talbot, Co. Roscommon
- Teacher: M. Ó Héimhthigh
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- (continued from previous page)used for giving light at night. Rush lights were made out of rushes. The rushes were peeled and dried. Then, they were melted in fat on a "grisset".
Threads of cotton were twisted for the wick of a dip. The wick was dipped in fat, and when it was hard it was dipped again and again until it was thick enough.- Collector
- Eibhlín Ní Fhíneachtaigh
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Mount Talbot, Co. Roscommon
- Informant
- Mrs Finnerty
- Gender
- Female
- Age
- 43
- Address
- Mount Talbot, Co. Roscommon