School: Cluain Eich (roll number 9942)
- Location:
- Clooneagh, Co. Leitrim
- Teacher: Sr. Ó Donnabhair
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- (continued from previous page)dinner Easter Sunday, after setting the rest. They used to eat stirabout three times a day when they would have no potatoes. The stirabout was very strongly made, and when it would be boiled it was cut into slices like bread and they would eat it out of their hands. They used to grind enough of meal at night to do the following day, with two querins. There was an old saying which is: he is gone out "siubailing" and he did not grind the breakfast.
- Long ago the houses were made from clay and a little hay or grass put through it to keep it from slipping. It was roofed with black oak or bog dale. There were bog-sods put on the timber. There was either oat-straw or wheaten straw put over that for thatch. There was a frame fixed the shape of the chimney in the middle of(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Martha Mc Guire
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Drumard (Jones), Co. Leitrim
- Informant
- Mr B. Shanley
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 82
- Occupation
- Farmer
- Address
- Drumard (Jones), Co. Leitrim
