School: Drumloughan (Dromlachan) (roll number 15665)
- Location:
- An Sonnach Mór, Co. Liatroma
- Teacher: Peadar Mac Giolla Choinnigh
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0221, Page 104
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- (continued from previous page)if he was working on the bog or in the meadow the dinner was sent out to him. The wife brought it in a creel on her back. There might be plenty of potatoes, a couple of boiled eggs and a little gallon or pint of milk. But the commonest dinner in old times was a pail of stirabout if there was a mehill working. The woman made a hole in the centre of it and put in about 2 lbs of butter in the hole and the men sat around with wooden spoons or "crainskeins"[Crann-sgían] as they called them and took spoonfulls of the stirabout and dipped them in the molten butter and fed to their hearts' content. When they had a good drink of buttermilk after it they were ready to begin work again. That was the last meal till quitting time. At night for supper they might have a few farrells of boxty and milk or a cast of roasted potatoes. You might say, that meal and milk was their chief food. Indeed they had wonderful cong[?] packed gallons of(continues on next page)
- Collector
- P. Mac Giolla Choinnigh
- Gender
- Male
- Informant
- John Kilkenny
- Relation
- Parent
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 66
- Address
- Droim Seanbhó Thuaidh, Co. Liatroma
