School: Cilleanna (Kilhanna), Maghcromtha (roll number 13193)
- Location:
- Johnstown, Co. Cork
- Teacher: Henry Goode
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0339, Page 020
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- (continued from previous page)ed milk.
The only bread used was wheaten bread. From the wheaten flour, they baked bread without mixing any other flour through it.
About forty years ago, tea was drunk in the evenings, and so potatoes were again partaken of late at night before retiring to bead. Tea was drunk during Christmas, and other festive periods of the year. Poor people rarely drank it, because they could not afford to purchase it.
A special custom which the old people attached to Christmas Eve is the eating of a very late dinner. This dinner consisted of potatoes, hake fish(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Rose Dromey
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Mamucky, Co. Cork
