School: Shrove (roll number 3470)
- Location:
- Stroove, Co. Donegal
- Teacher: Leonard Bovaird
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 1118, Page 42
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- (continued from previous page)was hung on a peg (when) on the wall when not in use. The people in olden times made their own bread. The bread made was oat-cake and potato-cake. Wheat was seldom used with the poor people except at Christmas time. When meat was eaten it was generally salt, saved by themselves, fish was eaten but vegetables were not eaten. Oat-cake and fadge and boxty have gone out of fashion. The people never ate late at night. On Shrove Tuesday the people ate pan cakes and on Candlemas poundies and on Easter Sunday eggs and on Hallow Eve apples and nuts The vessels used in olden times were called noggins. Tea was not much known until the year 1850.
- Collector
- Leonard Bovaird
- Gender
- Male
- Occupation
- Múinteoir
