School: Baile Uí Dhuibh (B.) (roll number 13635)
- Location:
- Ballyduff West, Co. Waterford
- Teacher: Ambrose Madders
Open data
Available under Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)
- XML School: Baile Uí Dhuibh (B.)
- XML Page 251
- XML “Food Long Ago”
- XML “Food in Olden Times”
Note: We will soon deprecate our XML Application Programming Interface and a new, comprehensive JSON API will be made available. Keep an eye on our website for further details.
On this page
- (continued from previous page)meal. They had different kinds of food such as potatoes, milk, butter-milk, oaten bread, barley bread, oaten-meal porridge, and yellow meal porridge. Milk was drank after each meal.
- Food in Olden Times
[-]
The food the old people used to eat long ago was potatoes and salt. Three meals was the most they ever ate. Breakfast dinner and supper were the meals they used to eat long ago. Their first meal used to be eaten in the morning about six o'clock. The people used to work hard before their breakfast. Each meal used to consist of potatoes and salt and sometimes stirabout. Buttermilk was the most common drink in the olden days and skim milk also. The tales long ago used to be against the wall and some-(continues on next page)- Collector
- Geoffrey Whelan
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Kildermody, Co. Waterford
- Informant
- Mrs Phelan
- Relation
- Unknown
- Gender
- Female
- Age
- 50
- Address
- Kildermody, Co. Waterford