School: Páirc an Chuilinn (Hollygrove) (roll number 15138)
- Location:
- Hollygrove, Co. Galway
- Teacher: Pádhraic Mac Gleannáin
Archival Reference
The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0046, Page 0395
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Food in Olden Times.
The people ate three meals a day, long ago. They always did most of morning's work before eating their breakfast. The breakfast generally consisted of stirabout or potatoes. Milk especially butter-milk was drunk instead of tea by the children. It was a common scene to see a group of children sitting around a pot of potatoes on the floor. They put salt on the potatoes and ate them with butter-milk. Oaten-meal bread was eaten long ago. It was made with water and meal and was baked on a griddle. Flummery(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Paddy Hennigan
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Barnacurra, Co. Galway
- Informant
- Mrs M. Hennigan
- Relation
- Unknown
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Barnacurra, Co. Galway
