School: Caiseal (roll number 16085)
- Location:
- Cashel, Co. Mayo
- Teacher: Pádraig Mac Mághnuis
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0122, Page 130
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- (continued from previous page)sometimes black flour, half an ounce of tea, half lb of sugar and a couple a barrels of poteen. The flour was 2d per lb and the tea 1 1/2d per oz, the sugar 2d per lb. and the poteen 6d per pint.
On Easter Sunday the principal distiller of poteen in the neighbourhood used to give a party called a "cake". All the boys and girls of the village used to gather up. The woman of the house used to have a cake made for the occasion. This cake was left on top of a bush with a clean white cloth under it. There the sport began, everyone trying to take down the cake. The one who would take down the cake would or could keep it, but it is God help the cake the tearing up it got, as they were not used to many of them.(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Mary Pidgeon
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Carrowcanada, Co. Mayo
- Informant
- Mrs Pidgeon
- Relation
- Parent
- Gender
- Female
- Age
- 45
- Address
- Carrowcanada, Co. Mayo
