- Collection type
- Object
- Description
- Resin candle. It is straight with a circle section. The wick is made from a textile rag and extends from the tip. The resin is brown in colour and is cracked and broken. One of a set of fourteen. [AB [OPS Move] 3/5/2017]
- Geographical reference
- Ireland County Monaghan Errigal Truach
- Cultural groups
- Irish
- Date / Period
- Date made: Before 1902
- Date collected
- 1902
- Acquisition information
- Donated: 1932
- Materials and processes
- Material Resin Plant, Material Textile, Material Animal Fat, Process Woven, Process Modelled
- Dimensions
- Diameter: max 10 mm, Length: max 251 mm
- Object numbers
- Accession number: 1932.88.108
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1966.3.169.2Brown cardboard box which is covered with a brown mottled patterned paper. Inside the box is a triangular shaped rest. For the corresponding objects see 1966.3.169 .1 for the candle and 1966.3.169 .3 for the box lid. [SB [OPS Move] 27/4/2017]1966.3.169.2
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