School: Lios na mBroc (roll number 11453)
- Location:
- Lisnamrock, Co. Tipperary
- Teacher: Séamus Ó Cinnéide
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0562, Page 220
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- (continued from previous page)30. and were of different sizes.
New egg spoons were made from ash in most houses about fifty years ago in the week preceding Easter Sunday. They were used in eating eggs on that day.
The Peggin. The "peggin" was made of ash, circular in shape, bottom diameter four or five inches, diameter at top three or four inches. One of the staves was left about three or four inches longer than the others, to serve as a handle.
They held about a quart of liquid.
On observing his companion catching it by the body, preparatory to his drinking milk from it, a Clare Spailpin working on a Tipperary farm, issued a warning to him in the following words :-
"Na beir ar colp air
beir ar chois air
Ní raghad an adharc id shúil"
The Flail. The flail consisted of two parts the handle and the buailteán. They were made of ash. The buailteán was the striking part. A groove was cut round the handle an inch from the top. A similar groove was cut, about the same distance from the top, round the buailteán(continues on next page)
