She also used to make necklaces out of red-berries.
Daddy used to make bird cages.
He used to get a wooden box about 1 1/2 feet long and about a foot wide.
Then he used to get wires and redden them and put holes in the box about half an inch apart.
He would then put in the wires and put a lath midway between the roof and bottom of the cage.
He would then put a wooden roof on and put in the perches.
He would also put in a wooden trough for the seed and a glass egg-cup for the water.My Aunt used to frame pictures with straw.
She used to weave some straw and iron it down flat.
She would then varnish it or paint it different colours and put it around the picture.Chrissie Cleary
Rath
Duncormick.

Certain DaysThere is a rhyme about marriage,
Monday for health,
Tuesday for wealth,
Wednesday the best day off all,
Thursday for looses,
Friday for crooses
Saturday the worst day of all.Friday is an unlucky day to change from one house to another.The month of May is unlucky in which to white-wash.Friday is unlucky on which to go on holidays.Sunday is unlucky on which to come back."Good Friday" is unlucky on which to cut bushes.Bridie Codd
Belrove,
Duncormick.

The Local Forges . . . 12 . 7 . 38There are three local forges in this Parish.
The names of the smiths are Jim Parle, Stephen Parle, and Jack Keane
This occupation has been carried on for, at least, four generations by the Parle family,
Jim Parle's forge is situated on a crossroads in Baldwinstown village.
Jack Keane's forge is situated on a crossroads at Woodgraigue
There is a large square door on it.
There is a big high fire-place outside the door and there is a big fan beside it.
The tools he uses are hammers, tongs, pincers, vice, rasps, nails, anvil, knives, tool-box grind-stone, and
There is a small stream beside the forge.
There is a slate roof on the forgeCarmel Roche
Johnstown,
Duncormick,
Co. Wexford.

The Local Forges. Jim Byrnes forge is situated down a long lane in Scar.
The forge is now roofless.
He was the grandfather of Jim Parle of Baldwinstown
Jim Byrne was fond of walking to Wexford, and one evening he was found dead by the roadside.
His son was killed in the explosion at St Kearns in Fethard
Jim Byrne was one of the best smiths in County Wexford.
This occupation had been carried for, at least, three generations.
There is a large arched door on the forge.Carmel Roche,
Johnstown,
Duncormick,
Co. Wexford.

Care of the feet.Long ago people began to wear boots only as soon as they finished school.
Some people never wore boots only when they went to Mass, and when they come out side the door, they took them off again.
Some boys at present go barefoot in Summer, but girls do not.
John Hunt Seafield used to make boots about eight years ago.
Boots are still repaired in this district.
There are three shoemakers in this district.
Clogs are not made in this district, but are sometimes worn especially in wet weather.Alice Walshe
Saltbridge
Duncormick
Co Wexford.

The Local Fairs.There was a fair held in Scar on the eleventh of June, but it was discontinued in 1918.
There used to be a fair held in Carrig-on-Bannow long ago.
Bridgetown and Taghmon are the nearest local fairs to us now.
When cattle are sold a luck-penny is always given.When the men concerned cannot come to an agreement one man holds out his hand and the other man and says "Divide a pound divide ten shillings etc.
The animals are marked by mud on the flank or by clipping a certain mark on the side.
The fair in Scar is now discontinued on account of the scarcity of people going to the fair.
The fairs held in the towns are nearly always held in the streets.Carmel Roche
Johnstown
Duncormick
Co. Wexford

Food in the olden Times.Three meals a day were eaten in the olden times.
The three meals were breakfast, dinner and supper.
Breakfast was eaten at half-seven o'clock, dinner at 12 and supper at eight.
Servants boys and girls were up at half-three and worked until breakfast hour.
Breakfast consisted of cuttlan porridge, dinner consisted of potatoes and herrings and supper consisted of potatoes and salt and "last years" butter-milk.
People sat around the table near a wall.
Barley bread was eaten and it was baked on the hearth against the fire.
Wooden mugs were used before cups came into use.
About sixty years ago tea was first used in this district.Kathleen Walsh
Gibberwell
Duncormick.

Food in Olden Times. .19 - 10 - '38Long ago people ate two meals a day. These meals were breakfast and supper.
The breakfast was eaten at nine o'clock in the morning and the supper at seven in the evening,
The people used to work every morning before breakfast.
The workmen got their breakfast out on the headland in the field every morning
At Roches, Levitstown, and other places, oaten stirabout was brought out in the field in a keeler for the breakfast.
When the men came in at night they got potatoes, salt, and buttermilk for their supper.
Buttermilk was the only milk that was used.
On Easter Sunday morning people wanted to see who would eat most eggs.
Alice Walshe
Saltbridge
Duncormick,
Co Wexford.

Old Houses.Our house is a very old one.
There is one window in the kitchen and one in the room below the kitchen.
The floor is made of clay and the back wall is also made of clay.
There is a ceiling in the room and the kitchen is big and bright
The chimney is made of bricks and cement and there is a thatched roof on it.
There are two fireplaces in the centre wall.
The kitchen is not ceiled and it has got black with the smoke.Kathleen Walshe
Gibberwell
Duncormick,
Co Wexfrd.

The milky thistle is the most harmful weed in untilled soil and the chickenweed in tilled soil. They both spread rapidly. The chickenweed grows in good land and the milky thistle in bad land. None of these has any cure. None of them are used for dyeingList -
The chickenweed
Crows toes
Devils feet
Ray weed
Cow slip
Dock
Daisy
Nettles
Rawk
Pig nut
Milky thistle
Thistle
Dandelion
Ferns
Butter - cup
Cocks
Wild daisyPadge Berry
Bellgrove
Duncormick

HerbsThere are lots of old herbs growing in the land the most harmful being the Hemlock because it spreads rapidly and it is poison.
Nettles are used for turkeys and also Dandelion is used for fowl.
Buachalan's are harmful because they impoverish the soil.
Butter-cups grow in bad land.
List -
Hemlock
Butter-cups
Pig weed
Dandelion
Water cress
Nettles
Milky Thistle
Docks
Buacalan
Rabach
Wild Poppy
Wild Carrot
Crows toes
Chicken Weed
Marchmallows
FernsAnnie Walsh
Gibberwell
Duncormick.