School: Fearth Mór (Brooklawn) (roll number 15508)
- Location:
- Fartamore, Co. Galway
- Teacher: Treasa, Bean Mhic Aonghusa
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0040, Page 0322
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- (continued from previous page)got a bit of meat from their neighbour for Sunday.
While the women were putting down the potatoes the men went to the lakes catching fish. They had a float made from rushes to stand on. When they came home they had as much fish caught as would do the dinner in the evening.
There was an old women in Milltown and she was going to have the stations in her house. That was the first time tea came to Ireland and the old woman bought some tea for the priests. In the pot she wet the tea, There were no cups at that time and into mugs she poured the tea.
- Collector
- Ide Ní Mhanghain
- Gender
- Female
- Informant
- James Mangan
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Liskeevy, Co. Galway
