Skating on the Quay

Skating on the Quay

Mary Montgomery-McConville remembers skating in the winter (mentions local hall, Coal Quay and small potatoes).

Excerpt from an oral history interview where the narrator reflects on skating on Lavitts Quay, a local hall used by the scouts and the Legion of Mary and the sorting of potatoes in the Coal Quay and eating the ones that were thrown away.


Transcript
"I remember in the Winter, Lavitt’s Quay was sloped and we’d come out and we’d throw water and we’d have eh skating down across – there was hardly any cars at that time but the footpath was kinda’ high and I don’t know how we weren’t drowned because we’d hit the curb when we’d get down, the young fellas and the young girls – but we wouldn’t be out too late. There was the hall at the end of Brown Street and they used to have the scouts there and Legion of Mary and they’d be practising their choir singing you know at the weekend. They’d sort the potatoes up in the Coal Quay and they’d throw away the small ones and we’d go up, we weren’t even washing them. We’d run away with the salt out of our houses and we’d eat them but we never got sick."

Cork Folklore Project

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Cork Folklore Project

4/26/2016

Mary Montgomery-McConville

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