School: Island Parish
- Location:
- Ballina, Co. Offaly
- Teacher: Seán Ó Móráin
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- (continued from previous page)it with quaran's stone. The did not eat late at night. Wooden noggins were used before cups were brought into the parish.
The people always had a goose for their dinner on Christmas day and pan cakes for their tea on Shrove Tuesday night. Vegetables were always eaten and turnips were the principal ones. Nov. night was called potato cake night because they used to make potato cakes because they had no bracks. There was very little tea in this parish up to a hundred years ago. The old people got it sometimes and they would give to their children in egg-shells. The wooden noggins were a sort of a mug with hoops around them and a handle sticking up out of them.- Collector
- Kathleen Connolly
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Ballina, Co. Offaly