School: Áth Treasna (C.) (roll number 16648)
- Location:
- Áth Trasna, Co. Chorcaí
- Teacher: Máire, Bean Uí Mhurthile
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0353, Page 076
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- Potatoes, yellow meal and sometimes oat-meal and milk were the principal food in olden times, tea was not in common use until the last generation.
There were usually two meals in the majority of houses, yellow meal gruel boiled or cooked in the morning, partaken of with milk in most households.
The gruel was poured into a large dish in the middle of the table and each member of the family was provided with a spoon and they partook of it with the spoons from the general dish and drank the milk out of wooden mug or in later years a tin saucepan.
In the evening about night fall, there was the second meal of potatoes and sometimes a herring which was placed in the(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Eibhlín Ní Concubar
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- An tOileán, Co. Chorcaí
- Informant
- Mr Eugene O' Connor
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- An tOileán, Co. Chorcaí
