School: St. Cronan's Longford Wood, An Teampoll Mór (roll number 6662)

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1. Food in Olden Times (continued)

   

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   people of this district used all buy their tea from an old man who was known as "blind Dan" and who had a little shop where the Post Office now is, in Clonakenny. Some years later a man who often travelled through the distrct was the "tea-man". He generally had a horse and small waggon in which were scores of pound and half pound packets of tea. We are told that he was so persevering that no woman would get him away from the door except she kept a packet of tea; and if the door happened to be shut and no one inside he would shove a packet through the window and called for the money on his next "round". The tea sold by those men was generally so bad that it had to be put down by the "glaum" (handful).

   On Christmas Day a boiled goose was to be had in almost every house for dinner and on Easter Sunday dozens of eggs used to be eaten.

   Written by Maud Treacy St. Cronans N.S.
   Most of this was told me by Batley Maher, Clonakilty

   

   Transcribed by a member of our volunteer transcription project.

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   Topics

   1. products
      1. food products (~3,601)

   Language

   English

   Collector

   Maud Treacy

   Gender

   Female

   Address

   Longfordwood, Co. Tipperary

   Informant

   Batley Maher

   Address

   Clonakenny, Co. Tipperary