School: Duxtown, Rathkeale (roll number 15943)
- Location:
- Duckstown, Co. Limerick
- Teacher: Agnes O' Grady
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- A Home made lamp
Get a bottle and fill it with paraffin oil. Then get a spool and cut one side off it to fit the head of the bottle. Then put a tin tube through the spool and draw wick yarn through the tube then you would light it, and the lamp is made.- Collector
- Seán Ó Cathasaigh
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Ballyea, Co. Limerick
- Informant
- David Frawley
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Duckstown, Co. Limerick