School: Robertson (roll number 12276)
- Location:
- Letterkenny, Co. Donegal
- Teacher: Liam Ó Morchadh
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- drawing piggins
Long ago people used piggins for milking the cows and smaller ones for drinking tea out of.
drawing cáipín beag.
Little cap was used for lifting milk out of the churn.
- Collector
- Rhoda Devlin
- Gender
- Female
- Age
- 17
- Informant
- Mrs Devlin
- Gender
- Female
- Drawing a stoke,
The people also had a pail with which they used to (lift butter milk out) draw water with and they called it a stoke.
