School: Cluainte (roll number 12404)
- Location:
- Cloontia, Co. Mayo
- Teacher: Máire Ní Riagáin
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- 26. Personal Nicknames are common in the locality they are descriptive of some personal quality e.g. a very tall thin man would be called Sling Phillips instead of John Phillips and the people are not sensitive at all about them.
Information from Miss W. Mac Donnell Cloontia, Ballaghaderreen.
- 30. Household utensils no longer used are: - Candle pan noggin, Cosset, gallon.
Candle Pan. Used for making rushlights it held fat in which they were dipped. It was a shallow oval shaped iron vessel standing on three short legs it was deep in the centre with sides sloping upwards and outwards.
Noggin. A wooden vessel in shape something like the delph vessel we call a mug. It held more than a pint.
Cosset, breadboard cakes were made on it, mixed kneaded and formed into shape.
"Tally" was used by the women to make up the lace borders on the white muslin caps worn by them.
Gallon, a large tin vessel.
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