School: Áth Dara (C.)
- Location:
- Adare, Co. Limerick
- Teacher: Máire Boardman
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0506, Page 026
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- (continued from previous page)There is a story told of the Kerry men when they came this way driving cattle to the Limerick market. When the Limerick man offered him a drink out of the pidgin and in trying to drink he always put the handle in his eye. For the Kerry mug he was used to. It was a very different vessel. It was cut all in the one piece from beech wood and had a handle pegged on. Hence the confusion with the Limerick pidgin (pigini). Keelers were also used in which milk was put to set for the cream to rise and also to work the butter in when in the making. The keelers had to be carefully scrubbed with salt and sand after each time being used and were hung up on the wall. If a keeler was near or out of use for some time it would be laid in a stream of fresh water and left for some days for the wood to swell to become nice and sweet for the cream.There is a story told of Kerry men who were employed in the district and when a storm rose, the first thing they would think of was to run out to(continues on next page)
