School: Teamhair, Áth Treasa
- Location:
- Taur, Co. Cork
- Teacher: Dd. Ó Súilleabháin
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0352, Page 032
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- (continued from previous page)bread was eaten. The oaten meal was got by crushing oats between two flags, the upper flag was worked by means of a handle called a quern. Very little meat was used, and that was salt meat. Foreign pork was generally eaten. Fish which the old people called "Sea Ramblers" was also eaten. People always ate late at night. As many eggs as everybody could eat was eaten on Easter Sunday. The first tea was used over seventy years ago in this district. Mugs and piggins made of timber, were used before cups became common.(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Mary B. Reidy
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Pleasure Hill, Co. Cork
- Informant
- Mrs Reidy
- Relation
- Parent
- Gender
- Female
- Age
- 48
- Address
- Pleasure Hill, Co. Cork
