School: Goirtín
- Location:
- Gorteen, Co. Galway
- Teacher: Máiréad Ní Dhubhthaigh
Archival Reference
The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0078, Page 266
Image and data © National Folklore Collection, UCD.
See copyright details.
DownloadOpen data
Available under Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)
- XML School: Goirtín
- XML Page 266
- XML “Cáca Pota”
- XML “Food in Olden Times”
- XML “Food in Olden Times”
- 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)who ate it said it was very nice.
- The first time tea came into the district the people spilt the tea away and ate the leaves with a spoon.
The stands that were under the griddle were called 'brand irons'. Some people used to cut a mark on top of the cake so that it would bake well. - The kinds of bread the people had long ago, were potato cake, oaten cake, soda cake, Boxty bread and loaves. They used eat meat only when they would kill a hare or a rabbit. They used to eat an odd salty herring.
- Transcription guide » You are not logged in, but you are welcome to contribute a transcription anonymously. In this case, your IP address will be stored in the interest of quality control.By clicking the save button you agree that your contribution will be available under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License and that a link to dúchas.ie is sufficient as attribution.
- Collector
- Michael Carr
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Gorteen, Co. Galway
- Informant
- Mrs M. Carr
- Gender
- Female
- Age
- 45
- Address
- Gorteen, Co. Galway
