School: Gortnasilla (roll number 15133)
- Location:
- Gortnasillagh East, Co. Leitrim
- Teacher: Thomas Mc Loughlin
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0205, Page 141
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- People in olden times used to have only two meals a day. They were breakfast and dinner. They often worked for three or four hours before they would eat a meal of feither potatoes or porridge. Potatoes were eaten very often. Milk was drunk -mostly buttermilk - out of wooden vessels called Noggins. Whenever a table was used it was one which was set in a frame along the wall - but very often people sat around what is called a ? on the middle of the floor. The table was often and is yet hung up against the wall when not in use. Oaten-meal bread, bread made from potatoes and boxty were generally used. Wherever meat was eaten the flesh of young calves was used. There was a lot of herrings eaten.
- Collector
- Maureen Harkin
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Treannadullagh, Co. Leitrim
- Informant
- Mrs Whyte
- Relation
- Grandparent
- Gender
- Female
- Age
- 75
- Address
- Killavoggy, Co. Leitrim
