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- Virginia, Co. Cavan
- Teacher: E. O' Reilly
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- People used to get up about six o' clock in the morning and without anything to eat they would go out and dig potatoes until they would be called in to their breakfast.
- Long ago the people used to have a basket full of potatoes in the centre of the floor and the people would sit around it. It was called a lusset.
- In some houses a table was hung on hinges against the wall.
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- Collector
- Philip Daly
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Murmod, Co. Cavan
- Informant
- Paddy Quilan
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Murmod, Co. Cavan