School: Mullach na Sídhe (C.) (roll number 15426)
- Location:
- Fairymount, Co. Roscommon
- Teacher: Bean Uí Dhubhthaigh
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- (continued from previous page)And when it was dry it was used to starch, collars, and every sort of garments
- A story is told about the first time tea became known.
A woman was one day preparing to have the stations and she thought the most precious thing she could give them was tea.
When the mor["n" written above]ing of the stations came she prepared the tea and when the priest was [struck out: sitted] seated at the table she strained away the tea and left the tea leaves on his saucer and the priest asked her were was the soup of them. Up to that they did not know how to wet tea- Collector
- N. Beirn
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