School: Scoil Sheosaimh Ntha (Cailíní)
- Location:
- Glennamaddy, Co. Galway
- Teacher: Úna, Bean Uí Threasaigh
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- (continued from previous page)296Continued anything else until he would have his dinner.
4. When he would come into his dinner all the family would
sit on the floor around a "scib" which would be left on a
pot. They would have a "nogging" each, full of sour milk
or perhaps sometimes they would have a few herrings,
roasted on a grid-iron.
5. They would have oatenbread called "aran-coirce" or
oatenbread mixed with flour called "fuinseog." They used
not eat much meat except fowl meat.
6. Long ago the people would not eat any food on Good
Friday, except oatenbread baked standing and tea
without milk or sugar.
7. When Christmas would come the man of the house
would go to the town and buy a stone of flour.
8. When the tea came to this district first the people used
boil the and eat the tea leaves and throw away the tea.
Long ago(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Freda Warde
- Gender
- Female
- Informant
- Dan Divilly
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Shannagh More, Co. Galway
