Volume: CBÉ 0485 (Part 2)
- Date
- 1938
- Collector
- Location
Archival Reference
The Main Manuscript Collection, Volume 0485, Page 0268
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- Brown bread and gruel was chiefly the food used around Castlerea during the famine years.
People did not know how to make tea, and very few people drank tea in those days. Tea was considered a luxury which only the wealthy could afford buy.
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“People usually attended the market at Castlerea in their bare feet.”
People usually attended the market at Castlerea in their bare feet. but adults, at all times, wore boots in Chapel. A woman borrowed her neighbour's boots, stockings, shawl or dress, to attend the funeral of a friend. Flannel was worn by women. Flannel dress, flannel petticoat, they wore two flannel shawls. One shawl covering the head, an outer and darker coloured shawl, over the shoulders and clasped on the bosom with a large pin.