School: Eslin (roll number 10026)
- Location:
- Eslinbridge, Co. Leitrim
- Teacher: Pilib Mac Aonghusa
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0217, Page 418
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- (continued from previous page)a few of the neighbouring cows and take a small soup of milk from each of them. Then if there was not much milk for the tea suppose in winter time they would beat up an egg - the yoke of an egg and put in a grain of soda in it to keep it from curdling and put that in the tea. Those Balls only took place a few times.
There was no jazz long ago. When they would be dancing the Sets in a country home instead of waltzing around the house they would stand at their right places and doing every part and time out the bar of the music - they would do it like they would call step dancing now. Sometimes instead of the Sets they would dance the Lancers - something like the Sets and the [?] nearly like the Sets also. They used to time(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Pilib Mac Aonghusa
- Gender
- Male
- Occupation
- Teacher
- Address
- Mohill, Co. Leitrim
- Informant
- Mrs Patrick Mc Guinness
- Gender
- Female
- Age
- 80
- Occupation
- Farmer's wife
- Address
- Drumhany, Co. Leitrim
