School: Cluain Leith Áird (roll number 12530)
- Location:
- Glenbaun, Co. Limerick
- Teacher: Máirtín de Barra
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0482, Page 029
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- Household Utensils Of Olden Times.
The following are some of the household utensils used some fifty to ninety years ago.The Piggin. This was a wooden vessel of about a quart in volume. It was bound with lighter strips of the same wood. The piggin was used as a drinking vessel. There was a piece of timber jutting up above the mouth, which acted as a handle.The Mug: This was also of wood of about a gallon in volume. There was a nice handle on its side, also of wood, and sometimes iron hoops. This mug was used to hold milk and to measure butter, on the occasion of filling a firkin. In order to measure the butter accurately, a cord was drawn across the mouth of the mug, to cut the butter evenly.The Keelers: A "keeler" was a flat wooden tub of timber, bound with iron hoops. The new milk was "lodged" in these keelers. They were scalded with boiling water(continues on next page)
- Informant
- Mrs Mary Griffin
- Gender
- Female
- Age
- 67
- Address
- Bauraneag, Co. Limerick
