School: Long an Inbhair
- Location:
- Lurgananure, Co. Cavan
- Teacher: Ml. Mac Géibhdigh
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 1006, Page 287
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- (continued from previous page)to come into this country, and the vessels that the people used before cups were wooden noggons and porringers, and some of those old noggon are still in a few local houses.
- During the sowing of the flax there used be a warning addressed to the mistress of the house.
Here is such a warning in rhyme.
When they come in the morning,
They'll give you strict warning,
To not be preparing your boxty or bruise,
Let no such compound on your table be found,
In such composition, the scutchers wont use,
But a nice soda cake, for novelty sake,
With sugar and spices, and the rarest of choises,
They will not refuse it, now mark what I say.
The beef or the bacon will not be mistaken,
But all is no use without plenty of tay. - Informant
- John Denning
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Lurgananure, Co. Cavan
