School: Tullyvin
- Location:
- Tullyvin, Co. Cavan
- Teacher: M. Feeney
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- (continued from previous page)lukewarm water and bake before a fire. Neither fresk nor salt meat was often used. Cows meat was generally eaten. Fish was eaten. Cabbage and turnips were also eaten. People did not eat late at night. Plum-puding was eaten at Christmas. Eggs are eaten on Easter Sunday and children dive for money in a tub of water on Halloween. I do not know when tea was first used in this district. Porringers and noggins were used before cups.
- Collector
- Gerard Benedict Mc Hugh
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Long, Co. Cavan