School: Cuilleán
- Location:
- Cuillaun, Co. Mayo
- Teacher: León P. Mac Eachmharaigh
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0098, Page 078
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- (continued from previous page)when the Land Commission took it over Jeffrey Bourke lived in Oldtown, near Irishtown.
- The old people used to have three makes each day. The lunch was called the "[?]" They had stirabout for breakfast but they worked two hours before this meal. They used to have potatoes and salt for dinner. They had no cups or saucers. They used to eat their stirabout out of sauspans or noggins. There used to be 9 pence for a noggin made by a copper. There was a special wooden spoon to match each noggin The old people used to make a cake out of oat meal and potatoes which was called "caca mūta". They used to make a cake out of oat meal alone which was called paddy oaten
- The men long ago played football and hurling here. Two villages usually opposed each other. The winning(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Mary Daly
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Boleybeg, Co. Mayo
- Informant
- Laurence Daly
- Relation
- Parent
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Boleybeg, Co. Mayo
