School: Áth Treasna (C.) (roll number 16648)
- Location:
- Newmarket, Co. Cork
- Teacher: Máire, Bean Uí Mhurthile
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0353, Page 077
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- (continued from previous page)centre of the table and each member took potatoes and "a pinch" of the salt herring to eat with potatoes also milk was taken with the potatoes.
An old man I knew tells a story of meeting a little girl on a morning going towards the local village with a spoon in her mouth, so he asked her why she had the spoon and she said "Sow I was sent for salt to the village for the gruel and I brought the spoon with me (tis the only one we have at home) so that "the lads" wouldn't have the gruel "aten" when I go home." This gives us an idea of the hard life the past generation endured.
Bacon was used as pigs were killed and home cured as they are at the present day but not to the same extent. Geese were much used in farmer's houses and it was the custom to make oat meal porridge of the soup.(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Eibhlín Ní Concubar
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Island, Co. Cork
- Informant
- Mr Eugene O' Connor
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Island, Co. Cork
