School: Cluain Fhiadh (C.), Carraig na Siúire (roll number 7772)
- Location:
- Clonea, Co. Waterford
- Teacher: Treasa Ní Cheallaigh
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0654, Page 212
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- (continued from previous page)wall like a huge shutter – the legs folding also and in this way it took up no room. Sometimes a salt herring which was called a red herring would be cooked on special occasions as a great treat. This would be hung by a cord over the centre of the table with the other end fastened to the roof. Each man had the privilege of rubbing each potato to it before putting it into his mouth, and in this way from the constant rubbing only the bony skeleton of the herring would remain suspended. The sour milk used to be drunk from wooden vessels called peggins.
If the supply of potatoes ran out then it would mean a diet of Indian Meal stirabout, twenty one times in the week, - that is outside parish of Fews.
- Collector
- Beatrice Walsh
- Gender
- Female
- Informant
- Thomas Walsh
- Relation
- Unknown
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 55
- Occupation
- Farmer
- Address
- Monminane, Co. Waterford
