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  1. Food in Olden Times

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    and Point" If very poor, a herring would be placed on the centre of the table. Before eating the potato each person would point the potato at the herring. It used do them as much good as if they ate the herring.

  2. Easter Sunday Custom

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    who took part in the "Herring hunt".

  3. Suppers Long Ago

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    For supper they would boil a pot of potatoes and they would get a sally-basket and bring it out on the street and put the potatoes into it, and the water would come through the basket. Then they would bring the basket in and put it on top of the pot (in the middle of the floor) in which the potatoes were boiled and then take their seats around it. In the meantime they would put a few sticks on the fire and roast a herring and put it on a deep plate and spill water over it and then place the plate up on the middle of the potatoes. Everyone peeled potatoes with their fingers. Everyone dipped a potato in the water of the herring Then each person would pluck a piece out of the herring. The herring was salty.

  4. Herring Fishing in Wexford Bay

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    A lot of herring fishing goes on in Wexford and we might not have it, had it not been for the Danes.
    When the Danes brought fishing to Wexford the town was very different from what it is now. The fishing people lived mostly up in the Faythe and William Street, and it seemed a different part of the town.
    Now the people have spread out but they have not lost the herring fishing which is a very good thing. The fishers go out every night almost, during the season, which lasts from October to January.
    During a good season the herring are sometimes as cheap as sixpence a dozen.
    When the herring are brought in at night they are very nice to look at, they are like a lot of coloured glass stuck together.
    When the fishermen are counting out the herring they say "Here is a cast and a herring".
    A cast is three, a hundred is 40 east and a cast and herring which is 124. A mease is five hundred.
    You can always tell if a herring is fresh or stale, if it is stiff and if it is stale it is limp.

  5. The Lore of Certain Days

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    If you eat a red herring on a "Christmas Morning, you will never have the toothache.

  6. A Fishing Disaster at Procklis, Co. Donegal

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    About 150 years ago there was a great herring fishery at a place called Prucklish (Bruckless Bay tragedy 11 Feb 1813) in Co. Donegal , and fishing boats from all parts of Connaught and Donegal went there to fish herring.
    Every morning when the boats would come ashore , during the herring fishing, an old woman would come and ask herring from the men. She came so often that the men grew tired of her. One morning , after the boats came in , she asked the herring as usual.
    The Donegal fishermen refused to give her the fish but a party of fishermen from Streedagh near Grange , Co Sligo gave her some.
    She went home saying that the Donegal men would not

  7. Food in Olden Times

    “The food in olden times differed very much from the food of the present day.”

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    When they were boiled the potatoes were thrown into baskets made from sallow rods, then the people gathered around the basket and ate as many as they could. Only the wealthy used tables and baskets were used by the poor people. Salt herrings were used instead of meat. A herring was roasted and a little water over it, when the herring was hung from the ceiling and each member of the household tipped the herring with a potatoe, the taste being on the potatoe. A herring would last a person over a fortnight.
    Tea was only used by modern people. When tea was first used the people were unable to make it. They got a saucepan into which they put the tea, after leaving it on the fire for some hours, they wold take it up and strain the water out of it. The tea-leaves would then be eaten with butter and sugar. Cups were never used but little goblets were used instead.

  8. Net Fishing in Kenmare Bay

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    Net fishing was much more popular long ago than it is now. There are different nets for different kinds of fish. Kenmare River was a noted place for fishing herring some years gone by. My Grandfather on Dawrus was a great herring net fisher. Herring nets are always fished in bright moon because in the dark moon there is light in the water, and the herring can see the net. The light is called barsoish.
    The net is boarded into the boat. In one side there are corks, and a rope all along it to keep it from

  9. A Drowning

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    Many years ago herring fishing was a great industry around Poll na Dubhe. In those days many herring boats used to be out all night on the bay manned by the neighbouring peasants. On one night when many men were out in their boats fishing for herring a great storm arose. Most of the fishermen made for the beach, but a few of the keenest went to sea. A storm arose along the beach and lashed the little boats and although the men were brave seamen their efforts to make land failed with the result that when the morning dawned nineteen widows were seen waiting on the beach. The men who went to sea avoided the greater storm and landed in an exhausted state on the shores of Donegal. The men who had tried to return to Poll na Dubhe were all lost.

  10. Food

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    Food
    In olden days people mostly lived on potatoes, porridge and bread. They used to have two meals in the day. They used to sit around on the floor in a ring, and there was a pot in the middle of them and it was full of potatoes or whatever was the food. Then there was often a herring fried and hung up in the middle of the ring of people, and when they lifted a potato out of the pot they rubbed it against the herring and so there was a taste of herring off the potato.

  11. (gan teideal)

    “In this locality there lived about 40 years ago at Caherhurley Cross a man named Martin Fahey...”

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    and John were having supper which consisted of a herring fried on the tongs. While the cooking operation was taking place the boys let a crane by a rope down the chimney. The frugal supper was upset as the crane and herring did not agree. Martin said to John it must be how the crane was flying by and smelt the herring and came for a meal. There is many an amusing tale connected with these two men but when Martin died leaving almost one thousand pounds in bank, his brother emigrated to the U. States bringing the hard earned money with him.

  12. Halloween Customs

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    Hallow E'en is an annual festival observed on the 31st. October. It is looked forward to by all the Irish at home or abroad especially by the young people. It is observed with great pomp and splendour. The old people observed strange customs at Hallow E'en. They made sure to have all their work done early, because they believed that the fairies and ghosts had leave to be out on that night, and they would not go outside the door past night. They spent the night playing tricks and telling stories. They performed many tricks, and they believed in the result of them. The marriageable girls went to a shop or a house and steal a herring. They could not speak from they stole the herring until next morning. When they came home they put the tongs on some coals, and put the herring on the tongs to cook. When it was cooked they

  13. Cruatan

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    In February 1813 a sad calamity occured in Bruckless Bay. There was great herring fishing going on and fishermen from different places were there. There was an old woman living in the place and she used to go to the shore every morning to get some herring to sell throughout the country. One morning they refused to give her herring. She went away displeased and went to her home. She had a little servant girl which she told to fill a tub of water and put a wooden dish into the pub. When the fisherman went out that day to fish the old woman told the little girl to look

  14. Shops in Olden Times

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    One woman that was among the crowd took a herring and struck the priest in the face with it. The priest took one of the herring and threw it out in the sea. Never again were there any herrings caught there.

  15. A Story

    “At one time Ballisodare Bay was noted for the large supply of Herring which were caught in it every year.”

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    At one time Ballisodare Bay was noted for the large supply of Herring which were caught in it every year.The fishermen were not contient with that,so they began to fight as to who would have the most fish.They fought with the result that one man was killed.When the priest heard it he came and cursed the boy.Herring was never to be found in Ballisocare Bay afterward.

  16. Food in Olden Times

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    was sometimes a coarse table cloth, more often none. There were no knives or forks, nor any plates, but one on which the herring, if one was there, lay. From time to time each one of the family nipped with finger and thumb a little bit of the herring, to give a flavour to his "pratee." Meat they never tasted, except on Christmas Day and Easter Sunday.

  17. Story

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    home and to get his wife to fry a red herring for him. When he had the herring eaten he was to go to a stream but he wasn't to drink any of the water no matter how thirsty he would be. The man did as he was told and when he was at the stream for some time the lizard came out of his mouth and nine young ones after her. The man then went home as well as ever.

  18. Danes Island

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    Danes Island. Where the Danes lived and worked mines. When they were going down to the mines they only light they had was to light herring. It is said that anyone who passes by at night can see a lighted herring.

  19. Food in Olden Times

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    very sour butter milk. Some of the people used to eat boiled "nettles" and "dock leaves". They used to boil yellow flowers called "braisce" which grow in cabbage gardens and eat them for their dinner.
    If the people ever got a herring for drinner the mother used to boil a big pot of potatoes and fry the herring. She used then throw the potatoes into a thing called a "scib" and they used all sit round it on the floor. She used then put the herring on a plate with gravy on "dip" as they used to call it. The mother used then say to the children "dip the praties in the dip and leave the

  20. The Local Herring Fishing

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    The Local Herring Fishery
    Possibly 100 years ago fishing was a great industry at Pullindiva. At this time 8 or 10 boats would go out fishing in the morning and on their return at evening the boats would be overloaded with fish. At this time also an old custom was that each fisherman should give the priest a herring. At the time there was in Templeboy a suspected priest Fr - and when the fishermen gained the pier each man offered a fish to this priest but Harry C_ taking his fish struck the priest with it. The priest lifting a stone cast it into the water saying a the same time that while that stone remained in the water no more herring should be got