School: Knocktoosh, Ráthluirc (roll number 12786)
- Location:
- Knocktoosh, Co. Limerick
- Teacher: Máire Ní Ghruagáin
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- My father told me that long ago, before candles were ever bought, the people made them at home for their own use. First of all they would kill a cow,and take the tallow as they called it out of her.
Next they got something round like a candlestick, but deeper and they used to melt the tallow in it. One person would hold a cord in the centre to form a wick, whilst the other poured in the tallow. Then it was left there for a time to harden and taken out ready for use.- Collector
- Edmond O' Connor
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Knockearagh, Co. Cork