School: Ínse, Dún Mánmhaí (roll number 16540)
- Location:
- Inch West, Co. Cork
- Teacher: Bríd, Bean Uí Chonaill
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- We have a timber pail at home on the remains of it. It was used in my grandmother's time. It is made of either oak or sycamore, shaped round, with the bottom wider than the top, and three or four hoops binding it.
One of the staves is longer than the others to form a handle and has a hole it the top of it to put the fingers through.
Grandmother used to take it on her head to the well for water and to the bog with a drink for the men. Mother says pails used be scoured on the outside with gravel, lime and sand and the hoops made as bright as a new shilling.
In the inside they used scour them with heath to keep them sweet for the milk.
- Collector
- Bessie Ross
- Gender
- Female
- Age
- 12
- Address
- Cummeen, Co. Cork
