When people in olden times were having their tea, they just pulled a creel out into the middle of the floor and set it at a slanting angle by putting on turf under one side of it.

Story collected by Mary B. Mac Donough, a student at Clochar na Trócaire, Carn Domhnaigh school (Ballylosky, Co. Donegal) from informant Cecelia Canny.