School: Corlis
- Location:
- Corlis, Co. Cavan
- Teacher: Mrs O' Reilly
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- (continued from previous page)turnips were the chief vegetables; but nettles were sometimes used in Summer.
Up to about twenty years ago tea was only taken twice a day; but now it is drunk four or five times and most people have a tea supper. Long ago the tea was drunk out of tin porringers and later out of delph mugs.- Collector
- Eugene O' Reilly
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Legaland, Co. Cavan
- Informant
- Thomas O' Reilly
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 62
- Address
- Legaland, Co. Cavan