School: Ceann Tuirc (B.) (roll number 14052)
- Location:
- Kanturk, Co. Cork
- Teacher: Liam Ó Caoimh
Open data
Available under Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)
- XML School: Ceann Tuirc (B.)
- XML Page 047
- XML “Food in Olden Times”
- 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
- (continued from previous page)at Easter and Christmas. Bacon was generally eaten. No fish was eaten.
Eggs were always eaten on Easter Sunday.
Up to forty years ago tea was not used by the poorer class.
The vessels that were used before cups, were called "piggins". These were like the common pint measure made of wood.[drawing of a piggin] - 3.
In former times people had(continues on next page)- Collector
- Patrick Higgins
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Greenfield, Co. Cork
- Informant
- Mr Patrick Cahill
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Greenfield, Co. Cork