School: Dún Bhéacháin (Dunbeacon) (roll number 15552)
- Location:
- Dunbeacon, Co. Cork
- Teacher: Tomás Ó Foghlú
Archival Reference
The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0289, Page 145
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- I have heard my Grandmother say that she often saw her mother making candles.
First she melted fat in a pot and when it was melted she poured it into a mould which was made of tin - the shape of a candle with a cotton thread running through the centre of it. A nail was then placed on top of the wick so as to keep it there and the mould was put into water so as to harden the fat. When hard the nail was taken up and with it came a candle ready for use.
- Collector
- Mary O' Sullivan
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Shantullig North, Co. Cork
- Informant
- Mrs Mary Moynihan
- Gender
- Female
- Age
- 75
- Address
- Shantullig North, Co. Cork
- The wool was carded first and was then spun into thread. It was then taken to the weaver who wove it into cloth. It was then taken to the tucking mill owned by John Sullivan of Durrus and tucked. The cloth when dyed was then ready for use.
The weaver in this district was a Harrington man of Cahiroleckna. In Durrus there were two weavers whose names were Johnson. There were three weavers in Cahir, Kilcrohane who were three sisters.
