School: Tíréaltan, Maghcromtha (roll number 13286)
- Location:
- Teerelton, Co. Cork
- Teacher: Dd. Ó Murchadha
Archival Reference
The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0340, Page 019
Image and data © National Folklore Collection, UCD.
See copyright details.
DownloadOpen data
Available under Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)
Note: We will soon deprecate our XML Application Programming Interface and a new, comprehensive JSON API will be made available. Keep an eye on our website for further details.
On this page
- (continued from previous page)Christmas and there are funny stories told of how it was cooked then.
They were a strong race then with frugal habits not like the race of to-day of whom three-fourths are depending on medicines for life. They worked from five a.m. until it was so dark that they could not find their coats and often went "sgoruidheachting" after and danced until morning. They danced fine old Irish jugs, reels and hornpipes not the trailing dismal, debased things that are called dances nowadays.
The Irish were then a race of splendid men and women of fine physique and although living in conditions of primitive simplicity they were independent-minded, long-living and care-free.
- Collector
- Daniel Burns
- Gender
- Male
- Informant
- John Lucey
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 43
- Address
- Lisnacuddy, Co. Cork
