School: Clonmellon (C.) (roll number 9501)
- Location:
- Clonmellon, Co. Westmeath
- Teacher: Mrs O' Reilly
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0725, Page 0168
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- (continued from previous page)Next the green skin was peeled off them until there was nothing left but the long white taper that is inside.
Afterwards some fat is melted in a grisset. This grisset is an iron instrument in the shape of a boat with three iron legs and an iron handle.
Next the rushes are laid across the grisset of tallow.
Next they are taken out and moulded into a round shape like a candle.
Then they are left there until they are hard enough to be put into the candle-stick.
Of course these candles could not be expected to be as good as the ones that are in use now.
- Collector
- Olive Mc Carthy
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Clonmellon, Co. Westmeath
- Informant
- Mrs Martin
- Gender
- Female
- Age
- 40
- Address
- Kilrush Lower, Co. Westmeath
