1. dúchas.ie
  2. The Schools' Collection
  3. Mullagh (B)

School: Mullagh (B)

Location:
Mullagh, Co. Cavan
Teacher:
James Drury
Browse
Mode:
The Schools’ Collection, Volume 1003, Page 102

Archival Reference

The Schools’ Collection, Volume 1003, Page 102

Image and data © National Folklore Collection, UCD.

See copyright details.

Download

Open data

Available under Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)

  1. XML School: Mullagh (B)
  2. XML Page 102
  3. XML “Old Houses”

Note: We will soon deprecate our XML Application Programming Interface and a new, comprehensive JSON API will be made available. Keep an eye on our website for further details.

On this page

  1. Old Houses (continued)

    Share Share Post
    (continued from previous page)
    boards and was painted red on the out side.
    The people had no oil lamps or candles long ago as we have at present. The first candles ever made were rush candles. This is the way that they were made. The people (wa) would get a red hot tongs and rub it on mutton fat over a grisset to let the fat melt into the grisset. Then they would peel the most of the skin of some (rushed) rushes. After that they would dip the rushes one by one with a little bit of skin on them into the grisset.
    Transcribed by a member of our volunteer transcription project.
    History Edit
    Topics
    1. objects
      1. man-made structures
        1. buildings
          1. residential buildings (~2,723)
    Language
    English
    Collector
    Michael Murchan
    Gender
    Male
    Address
    Shancarnan, Co. Meath
    Informant
    Mr Murchan
    Gender
    Male
    Age
    55
    Address
    Shancarnan, Co. Meath