School: Oileán Ciarraí (roll number 10956)
- Location:
- Castleisland, Co. Kerry
- Teacher: Tadhg Ó Céin
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0446, Page 535
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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. - Long ago the people had not as much as the people nowadays, but it was much more healthy. Potatoes were their principle food, they also had squares made from Indian meal and some butter-milk and porridge that they used to call gruel.The men had to work about four hours before their breakfast, because the woman had to feed the pigs and calves. For their breakfast they had a saucepan of gruel and a tumbler mug of sour buttermilk and maybe a potato. For their dinner they would have potatoes, fat meat and cabbage and for their supper they had a mug of butter milk and squares. The squares were made from meat mixed with flour and some buttermilk and it was rolled out with a pint bottle, and baked on a griddle.Whenever they were eating they always pulled the tables out in the middle of the(continues on next page)
