School: Templeglantine (B.) (roll number 2359)
- Location:
- Templeglentan, Co. Limerick
- Teacher: Maitiú Ó Duilleáin
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0492, Page 112
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- (continued from previous page)bread once at day or oatmeal porridge, or black coffee.
In some places the yellow bread was made with boiling water and was mixed with a spoon and it was cut out in squares and baked in a griddle. Meat was very seldom eaten and in some places the servants used to eat it only twice a year, Christmas and Easter Sunday.
Pork meat and geese were the commonest of meat and once in a while they used to get a salt herring. The only vegetable used was white cabbage dressed with cream. In former days they used to(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Séamus Ó hÓdhráin
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Meenyline South, Co. Limerick
- Informant
- Denis Horan
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Meenyline South, Co. Limerick
