School: Na Tearmoinn (B.) (roll number 8931)
- Location:
- Tarmon East, Co. Kerry
- Teacher: Seán Ó Cathaláin
Archival Reference
The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0403, Page 354
Image and data © National Folklore Collection, UCD.
See copyright details.
Download
Open data
Available under Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)
- XML School: Na Tearmoinn (B.)
- XML Page 354
- XML “Fairy Forts”
- 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
Fairy Forts (continued)
“There are ten forts in the school district.”
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.- Three meals a day people used to eat long ago. The meals were Breakfast, Dinner and Supper. They were eaten at eight o'clock, twelve o'clock and six o'clock. The food consisted of potatoes two times a day and sometimes three times a day. When they had not potatoes they got a square of yellow bread and skimmed milk. People used to work in the morning before breakfast. The milk they used was separated milk. The tables were placed against the wall at meal time. The tables were not hung against the wall. In the olden times people nearly always ate yellow bread. It was made of meal, very little flour and hot water. Long ago people very seldom they(continues on next page)