School: Dún Beag (C.)
- Location:
- Doonbeg, Co. Clare
- Teachers: Eibhlín Ní Shúilleabháin Bean an Ághasaigh
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“From 50 to 10 years ago there was a lot of labourers in this district.”
(continued from previous page)currants and raisins were only used at Xmas or on a very special occasion and butter only about once a day.
Butter was sold in firkins. Every three or four farmers wives were partners and a firkin was filled in each of their houses in turn. That was a great day for the farmers wives. When the firkin was filled they had tea, cream cake, boiled eggs or maybe a chicken.
The cream cake was a soda cake with plenty of cream in it and baked in the griddle.- About 70 or 80 years ago several families lived(continues on next page)