School: Raharney (B.)
- Location:
- Raharney, Co. Westmeath
- Teacher: S. Ó Conmhidhe
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- XML “Old Crafts - Candle Making”
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- XML “Old Crafts - Churn Making”
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- (continued from previous page)stuff inside the alder and put it into a dish of boiling water and left in it for a day then it is taken out and dried and dipped in melted suet. Then they were used as candles.
- Tub making was carried out in Kinnegad about three years ago, he got ash wood and sawed it into flat boards. Then he made a circle of the boards and two thin hoops round it and nailed them on to the wood, and put the bottom under it.
- Churn making was carried out in Longwood by Jack Mac Carr's son in law. He gets oak wood and saws it into small boards. Then he makes a circle of the boards puts hoops around the wood and nails them on to the wood, then he puts the bottom under it.