School: Duleek (C.) (roll number 3114)
- Location:
- Duleek, Co. Meath
- Teacher: Máire, Bean Uí Dhonnchadha
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- (continued from previous page)Blankets & Cushions
In a little house about one hundred yards out of the village. There is a room in Mr Crowin’s house in which people made cushions and blankets. When they had a lot made they used to bring them to the town and sell them. They used to work from five O’clock in the morning until eleven O’clock at night.
Cottage Industries.
The people of the locality made candles, soap and polish. When they made candles they got a pan and put lard on it. When the lard was melted they got rushes and dipped them into the grease. Then they hung them up to dry.
Soap was made from tallow. They got tallow from the fat of sheep. - Polish was got from frogs. a frog was killed and the polish taken out. It was only black polish that could be got.
- Bakery
About one hundred years ago there was a bakery in the village at the place where Mr Christopher Dwyer’s shop now stands. It was owned by a man named Cluskey and was a very flourishing(continues on next page)