School: An Dubh-Chearn (roll number 9534)
- Location:
- Doochorran, Co. Leitrim
- Teacher: Bean Mhic an Ríogh
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0226, Page 113
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- (continued from previous page)In it also they kept noggins these were round wooden vessels with handle on them. They had all wooden vessels long ago. One a fest day after the dinner the old man of the house went off to the press and got the bottle and the cow horn and took a slug then he handed it to his wife. They had an old black porringer for making tea. On a feast day they made rice and bought a load. They put rushes on a floor. They had an small table and on a feast day they put a leaf of paper on it for a table cloth. They had the press table and dishes scrubbed white. They had straw chairs made by themselves and a few mats on the floor.
- Collector
- B. Sutherland
- Address
- Toome, Co. Leitrim
- Informant
- Alex Sutherland
- Address
- Toome, Co. Leitrim
