School: Colehill (C.), Mullingar (roll number 14673)
- Location:
- Colehill, Co. Longford
- Teacher: Kathleen Morris
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- Rush Candles. You would have to go to bottom land where thee would be strong rushes about two feet long . Cut them with a hook . Break off the thin tops and peel the rushes leaving two little strips of the green on to strengthen the rush . Then you put the sIosgAn of rushes on the sugar ( a frame of wooden sallies) to dry . You put down grease in a crust ( a boat shaped pot ) and melt it. Take a bundle of rushes and dip them in it .Then you put them into a candle trough to cool. Then you put them into a candlestick placed on the middle of the floor. This was a wooden article with a sort of pincers on top to hold the rush candle . On the top of the candlestick there was a snuffers. This was a small article like a thimble used for quenching and knocking off the inside part of the candle.(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Gertie Duff
- Gender
- Female
- Age
- 13
- Informant
- Mrs Gill
- Relation
- Grandparent
- Gender
- Female
- Age
- 69
- Address
- Killinbore, Co. Longford