School: An Cnocán Bán, Áth Treasa (roll number 12999)
- Location:
- Cummery Connell (South), Co. Cork
- Teacher: Eibhlín, Bean Uí Ríordáin
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0350, Page 422
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- (continued from previous page)breakfast at eight o'clock. The older people say that in the harvest time they would cut a meadow of hay while the potatoes were being prepared. They would then come and have their breakfast of potatoes and skim milk. Sometimes the Master and Mistress of the family would have tea after their breakfast of potatoes.
At one o'clock they would have their usual meal on dinner of potatoes, cabbage and pork. They about nine o' clock they would have their supper of potatoes and skim milk again.
They used eat around the table in the centre of the house when eating every meal. When the potatoes ran short the people used Indian meal bread. The bread used be generally made by the women.
The people used not eat meat very often then, the big people or well to do farmers used eat it often but other people would think it good if they had it at Christmas.
They used fresh meat and salt meat. Salt meat was generally eaten. Fish was eaten sometimes. At Christmas people used have butter and they used not have it at any(continues on next page)
- Informant
- Mrs T. J. Twomey
- Gender
- Female
- Age
- 75
- Occupation
- Farmer
- Address
- Meenkearagh, Co. Cork
