School: Cluain Meacan (roll number 11451)
- Location:
- Cloonmackon, Co. Kerry
- Teacher: Liam Ó Catháin
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0406, Page 247
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- (continued from previous page)except at weddings and on feast days. They then used have boiled geese and drink. Tea was first used about sixty or seventy years ago and they used have it at Christmas only. They used have saucepans and wooden mugs before cups became common.
- In olden times the number of meals used to eat each day was three. These meals chiefly consisted of potatoes and milk. In those times there were(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Con Halpin
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Dromin, Co. Kerry
- Informant
- Tom Donegan
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Dromin, Co. Kerry
