School: Creach na mBearna
- Location:
- Greaghnafarna, Co. Roscommon
- Teacher: Tomás Breathnach
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- (continued from previous page)then. When tea was introduced into this district 100 year ago it was as bad for a girl to be known as a tea-drinker as to be known as a whiskey drinker now.
People did not sit around at tables at their meals. They sat around a square board called a "looset." This board had a flange two inches deep around it and it used to be placed either on an upturned chair or on a stool in the centre of the kitchen floor. The potatoes were placed on this board without a dish. The milk was placed in vessels called "Noggins." These were made of clean wood and bound with bright metal hoops. They held about a quart or a little more. Every two members of the family drank from the one Noggin.
The oat meal used was all(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Leo Layden
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Derrinisky, Co. Roscommon
- Informant
- Mrs Christie
- Gender
- Female
- Age
- 60
- Address
- Arigna, Co. Roscommon
