School: Lismacaffry
- Location:
- Lismacaffry, Co. Westmeath
- Teacher: Ml. Ó Gamhna
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0739, Page 354
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- (continued from previous page)bog dale, sticks, turf and cow dung.
There was a bed in the houses in the kitchen and it was placed along the wall. It was called a settle bed. The people used rush candles to show them light. The candles were made from bull rushes. The rushes were first cut, then they were dried. When that was done they were peeled and they were dipped in tallow.
- Informant
- Hugh Sullivan
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 54
- Address
- Kilfintan, Co. Longford
