School: Killaraght (roll number 11755)
- Location:
- Killaraght, Co. Sligo
- Teacher: Annie Brennan
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0187, Page 119
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- The people of the olden times had not the same sort of food as the people of the present day. Their food consisted of potatoes , porridge and a salt herring sometimes. For the breakfast they had porridge and butter-milk . Sometimes the pot of porridge ws placed in the centre of the floor and all the family sat around it. If the women the house had no milk she made a hole in the porridge and put sugar into it.
They haed potatoes for the dinner . If they were expecting a visitor they roasted potatoes and gave them new milk and butter iwththem . When a was working out in the fields he put down a fire and roasted potatoes , and eat them with a "noggen" of milk . The 'noggin was a wooden little vessel with two handles used for bolding milk. After times they soaked(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Kitty Haran
- Gender
- Female
