School: Borris (B.)
- Location:
- Borris, Co. Carlow
- Teacher: Ss. Ó Loinneáin
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0904, Page 354
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- About fifty years ago Moloney's of Borris made candles. They way [the way they] made them was they would melt a very large tub of tallow wax and got a board to cover the tub. Then they would get a lot of wicks about the length of a candle and tie them to the board. Then a man would lift the board up and a little bit of the hot wax would stick to the wicks and as soon as the wax got hard he would dip the wick down again. He would stay doing this until the[y] were as big as candles. Then they would sell them in the shop to the public. They used to call them half-penny dips.
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- Collector
- Jim Joyce
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 13
- Address
- Borris, Co. Carlow
- Informant
- Thomas Brophy
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 38
- Address
- Borris, Co. Carlow
