School: Errew G.N.S. (roll number 13261)
- Location:
- An tOireamh, Co. Mhaigh Eo
- Teacher: Brígid Nic Eoin
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- (continued from previous page)of oatmeal bread or sirabout. People who were well off drank tea but others drank tea only on Christmas night.
The bread was made of oatmeal and water. People also ate meat and fish. In olden times a few days before Easter Sunday all the boys hid eggs and on Easter Sundsay they gathered together in a field and lit a fire. Then they put down the eggs in a can and boiled them.
Before cups were introduced the people used wooden vessels called "noggins."(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Kate Kilcoyne
- Gender
- Female
