Volume: CBÉ 0407 (Part 1)
- Date
- 1937
- Collector
- Locations
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The Main Manuscript Collection, Volume 0407, Page 0028
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- (continued from previous page)Losing Butter: I think I have this covered in first Book filled
Food: potatoes 3 times per day. The workers at KyleBalllyhue House got their breakfast before day-light & their supper after dark. Hence the saying: the house where they got 2 suppers the one night." After failure of the potaotes the men turned on oatmeal stirabout & ginger. Hence they say that oat-meal stirabout & ginger built all the local relief works, drains & ditches. I fear much of the stirabout was, at least at times, made of "Yǎllǎ Buck", local name for Indian meal. Always a goose for Michaelmass & a turkey, when at all possible for Xmas (in later years) My grandfather remembered the days of the "log wheels" & the cow or bullock used for ploughing & for draft.
Highwaymen. The spot is shown at an Z bend on the Kellistown road when Freney robbed a coach i.e. Freney's Corner.
Market-day. The Ballod-singer was ever popular. When it was illegal to sell ballods they used to sell a straw for a penny & wrap it up in the ballod!"When an ass letting loose from behind
Made the blood of the bravest run colder"A maker of ballods once reproved his wife as she impertuned him for the price of a loaf: "Bí do t'ost, woman, can't you see I'm composing!"
The apple-woman & the cracker-woman were popular. They could always supply one with a bottle of lemonade & 'an' a stick in it. Saffron-buns & gingerbreadmen were(continues on next page)