School: Drumloughan (Dromlachan) (roll number 15665)
- Location:
- An Sonnach Mór, Co. Liatroma
- Teacher: Peadar Mac Giolla Choinnigh
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0221, Page 106
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- (continued from previous page)people used to call this duck's cabbage. They often spread this on the oat cake if butter was scarce. No there was no bacon, meat mutton or tea in the old times. The (ot) woman in old times never had to leave the house for a thing. When she wanted a light she had her bundle of rush or rawsin (resin) candles on the hob. When she wanted to patch clothes she had her linen "trums" eg. the linen thread rolled around the beam of the loom which the weaver cut off and gave back with the piece of cloth he had woven. Or if she hadn't "trums" she took her wheel and spun a thread She made the starch for her own "borders" out of potatoes and made it up on the tally iron. The old women were great managers, and I often get lonesome when I think of their cheery ways and their good humour. And when the old women lit their pipes at night they could tell some fine stories. But they wouldn't talk the Irish to us. When they didn't want us to know what they were talking(continues on next page)
- Collector
- P. Mac Giolla Choinnigh
- Gender
- Male
- Informant
- John Kilkenny
- Relation
- Parent
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 66
- Address
- Droim Seanbhó Thuaidh, Co. Liatroma
