School: Mín Riabhach (roll number 17050)
- Location:
- Meenreagh, Co. Donegal
- Teacher: Anton Ó Domhnaill
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 1097, Page 73
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- (continued from previous page)The people of olden times used to have a feast on Hallow Eve night. They used to make tea at this feast. It was the time of famine that the people first drank tea. They did not know how to make tea; some of them mixed butter with tea leaves and at them.
The people used to eat their food out of noggins before cups were found.
The old people used to gather all the eggs which they got during Lent, and they ate them all on Easter-Sunday. They would not eat eggs during Lent.
- Collector
- Kathleen Gallen
- Gender
- Female
- Informant
- George Gallen
- Gender
- Male
