School: Bansha (B.) (roll number 11964)

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   “It was a beautiful summer evening and, taking out my bicycle, I went for a spin through the Glen of Aherlow.”

   

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   sing of rain, and those people are coming from Cashel to-night to see your grandfather"

   I put the stone pot on the fire, then I got eight lbs of sheep fat. That I had brought from Cahir the day before. I placed it in the pot and waited until it was rendered. Then I got an old bumbeg sheet and cut six strips an end in each hand and kept twisting until it became round. Still holding each end I dipped it in the sheep fat. Then kept rolling it between my palms. Then I dipped it again, and so on until I had a nice round candle twisting a wick to a fine point. Then I layed it on a board in the open air to harden and so on until I had the strips finished. There was big big wool-packs sitting on Gallteemore and the watery November sun was throwing

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   History Edit

   Language

   English

   Collector

   Thomas Fuller

   Gender

   Male

   Informant

   William Lukeman

   Gender

   Male

   Occupation

   Farmer

   Address

   An Bháinseach, Co. Thiobraid Árann