School: St Bridget's (roll number 13854)
- Location:
- Derrymore, Co. Mayo
- Teacher: Máire Uí hOistín
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0138D, Page 16_016
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- This is the way the people used make candles. They used rinder fat and that was for the outside. For the wick they used get the inside of the rushes and put it in the candles.
- Collector
- Máire Ní Raghallaigh
- Gender
- Female
- The people long ago used hardly buy any clothes. They used make their own clothes by carding and spinning. My mother has a spinning wheel at home. First of all(continues on next page)
