School: Dún Bhéacháin (Dunbeacon) (roll number 15552)
- Location:
- Dunbeacon, Co. Cork
- Teacher: Tomás Ó Foghlú
Archival Reference
The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0290, Page 218
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- (continued from previous page)and many old people still living in the locality say that they never drank tea until they were forty years. In some houses it was considered a dainty and was used only at Easter and at Christmas. When it was used it was boiled for an hour and then thickened with sugar. The old people never used cups but tin cans and earthen-ware basins and these were cleaned with heath. In few houses they had plates, and owing to their scarcity, they were mended when they broken, and in many houses in this locality the neat craft of those who mended the plates can still be seen.
- Collector
- Teresa Coughlan
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Derreennalomane, Co. Cork
- Informant
- Mr Burke
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 70
- Address
- Derreennalomane, Co. Cork
