School: Baile an Oileáin (B.) (roll number 2808)
- Location:
- Ballinillane, Co. Kerry
- Teacher: Eoghan Ua Muircheartaigh
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0460, Page 633
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- (continued from previous page)called piggins were used. These were earthenware vessels shaped like what we now call mugs. Wooden mugs were in common use up to 1875. Some of these contained a quart. Others contained a pint. These were cut out of a block of timber. In 1875 tin saucepans some of which measured a quart and others which measured a pint came into use.
- Up to fifty years ago bread was made from Indian meal and hot water. The hot water was poured on the meal in a pan. The meal was coarser than that seen nowadays. The meal(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Eugene Moriarty
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Leamnaguila, Co. Kerry
- Informant
- John Moriarty
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 74
- Address
- Leamnaguila, Co. Kerry