School: Druim na dTréad
- Location:
- Drumnatread, Co. Cavan
- Teacher: S. Stonndúin
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- (continued from previous page)The pipes they used were called clay pipes. The tobacco was not like ours but they would get in a good store of coltfoot and dry it and then they would smoke it.
They would hand round the pipe and let each man get a smoke. About ten o'clock they would get their supper. The supper consisted of oaten porridge and buttermilk. In other cases it consisted of griddle bread and tea. Then they would leave before twelve o'clock and the expression used was "God send you safe home"
- There are not so many pastimes in the district now-a-days as there were long ago. Now-a-days at Easter it is a custom for the young children to light a fire on the top of a hill to boil eggs and make tea.(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Josie Murtagh
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Bindoo, Co. Cavan
- Informant
- Mr Patrick Murtagh
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Bindoo, Co. Cavan
