School: Tappa (roll number 10451)
- Location:
- Tetoppa, Co. Monaghan
- Teacher: S. Ó Reachtaire
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0953, Page 039
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- (continued from previous page)(let it stays) and at the end of that time I take it out and drink it. It is of a red colour when it comes out of the bottle.
- Blackberrie Wine is another drink that is made yet. You get the blackberries and pick them and wash them and put them in a saucepan with water and sugar and let them boil for one half hour and then take it off and strain the juice into a jug and let it stay there for a day until it sets then it is ready for taking.
- Foods of ancient days = One Shrove Tuesday sometimes called Siaft or Pancake Tuesday the people of olden days used to eat pancakes. It was a custom but the people of to day do not bother.
- Lucky Days It is very unlucky to born on Whit Monday for they will either kill themselves or someone else. It is said that July is a very lucky month to be married in. And May is a very unlucky month to be married in. For and old saying and a true one marry in May and you will rue the day(continues on next page)
