School: Clonmacnoise
- Location:
- Clonmacnoise, Co. Offaly
- Teacher: P. Ó Maolmhuaidh
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- (continued from previous page)handle go out by the side of your ear, or else you would not get a drop out of the vessel. It was called a noggin. Very few noggins are to be seen now. The old people had also another wooden vessel like a dish. They used it just as we use dishes now. Some of these dishes are still to be seen but they are only used for making butter. Butter was made in a churn with a dash long ago. These churns were made by a man called a cooper. The churn had a lid with a hole in the middle to let the handle of the dash out through. Then there was a small wooden cap put on over the handle of the dash and over the lid. This vessel keeps the milk from splashing out. It is called a dabler or a jogler. Bread or cakes are made on a flat board with a raised edge(continues on next page)
- Informant
- Master Molloy
- Gender
- Male
- Occupation
- Teacher
- Address
- Clonmacnoise, Co. Offaly