School: Caroreigh (roll number 6700)
- Location:
- Carrowreagh, Co. Wexford
- Teacher: Séamas Ó Cellaigh
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- XML “The Making of Candles and Soap”
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- Collector
- Bessie Banville
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Shanowle, Co. Wexford
- Collector
- Laurence Banville
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Barry's Cross Roads, Co. Wexford
- Informant
- Mrs Whitty
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Barry's Cross Roads, Co. Wexford
- The people got cotton threads to make candles then they would boil greece and keep dipping the cotton threads in the greece until they had it made;
then the people would hang them to dry.
Soap was made by boiling greece a half a pound of pot-ash, and boil it for half an hour then put it into dishes and let it set then cut it into large bars and let it get really hard and(continues on next page)