School: Castletown
- Location:
- Castletown, Co. Meath
- Teacher: Owen Maguire
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0711, Page 404
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- (continued from previous page)Sunday they eat eggs. On Shrove Tuesday the people make pan cakes. Tea is in use in this district about one hundred years. When the people first got tea they drank it black then they got to know that sugar and milk were used. There was a man in Mitchelstown and they called him the "Blackie" every house he went to he wanted to get some tea. The day he went to Donegans and asked for tea the maid got ready the tea and left it on the table and the man put the sugar and milk into the tea pot and began to drink out of the spout.
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- Collector
- Mary Smith
- Gender
- Female
- Informant
- Mr James Smith
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- c. 48
- Address
- Knock, Co. Meath
