School: Meelick (C.)
- Location:
- Míleac, Co. an Chláir
- Teacher: Bean Uí Mhórdha
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- (continued from previous page)so accustomed to this that they used wait outside the door to be let in. They used furze bushes and dry heather and borawns for making fires.
They used work hard in summer gathering this heather so that it would be dry for the Winter. The light was usually of rush candles The candles were sometimes kept in the neck of a bottle. The candles were home made of the pith of rushes and meat fat.- Collector
- Connery
- Address
- Gleann na gCros, Co. an Chláir
- Informant
- John Connery
- Relation
- Parent
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 60
- Address
- Gleann na gCros, Co. an Chláir