School: Corr Odhar (roll number 14701)
- Location:
- Corrower, Co. Mayo
- Teacher: Aibhistín Ó Coinnigh
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0126, Page 519
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- (continued from previous page)they peeled the potatoes with their fingers. When they had fish or cabbage for dinner there was a plate left in the middle of the basket and it was filled with cabbage and all the family ate out of that plate. The father and mother ate out of two plates at the table. Sometimes when there was no basket the potatoes were left on the small table at the end of the big table, and the family ate their dinner there. The small table was called the "big stool". There was not much meat eaten a that time, only all that was eaten at Christmas, Easter and Martinmas.
Long ago people drank no tea only at Christmas and Easter and even then they drank very little. The milk and tea were drunk out of small tin saucepans or "noggins". Noggins were small Jug-shaped vessels made from oak.
- Collector
- Winnie Mullen
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Corrower, Co. Mayo
- Informant
- Martin Mullen
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 57
- Address
- Corrower, Co. Mayo
