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   “Mrs Kitty O'Connell (née Kelleher) of Farrankeal aged 80 gave me an account of their eviction and some interesting recollections of her youth.”

   

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   Visitors brought a pound of tea and as they were well-to-do they always had it in the house. Whenever tea was made the father would be asked to drink it and as an enticement he would be told - "Ól é sin! cá sé seo go maic mar cuireas a Dócain dén scuif ann", but the father preferred bread and milk. The tea in those days was tea.- but she supposed that was because they had such nice 'young' cream for it.

   The greatest treat in those days was given to the 'Clovers'. She often saw twenty or thirty girls sitting around the kitchen at the 'Cloving' - For their supper, a big pot of new milk was hung over the fire and "baker's" bread was broken into it. They made a great supper and then the boys came and they danced 'till morning. The homemade bread was made from 'bought' flour and it was in 20 stone sacks. She (or her people) never mixed meal (indian) with the flour but when her brother Denny got married in the farm his wife, who was from "Kerry" (across the Blackwater) often made

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   History Edit

   Language

   English

   Collector

   Díarmuid Ó Muimneacháin

   Gender

   Male

   Occupation

   Príomhoide

   Informant

   Mrs Kitty O' Connell

   Gender

   Female

   Age

   80

   Address

   Farrankeal, Co. Cork