School: Baile an Mhuilinn, An Droichead Nua (roll number 16654)
- Location:
- Milltown, Co. Kildare
- Teacher: S.P. Ó Donnchadha
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- (continued from previous page)many eggs on Sunday, and most people have lamb for dinner or that day. On Shrove Tuesday it is a custom to have pancakes for the tea. On Michaelmas Day, many people have the flesh of a goose for dinner. It is about seventy years ago, since tea was first drunk in my locality. Before cups became common, the old people drank out of wooden mugs, which they used to call goblets.
In most places, the tables were hung up by the wall, when they were not in use. When the old people finished their last meal every night, they would stay around the table telling stories until late in the night.
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- Informant
- Mrs Mary Clinton
- Relation
- Parent
- Gender
- Female
- Age
- 44
- Address
- Dunbyrne, Co. Kildare