School: Colmán, Fíodh Árd (roll number 14081)
- Location:
- Colman (Cramptmore), Co. Tipperary
- Teacher: Caitlín Ní Dhomhnaill
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- People ate three meals a day in olden times, namely breakfast, dinner and supper. The breakfast consisted of potatoes or porridge(stirabout) oaten bread and skimmed milk. The skimmed milk was hung over the fire in a skillet until it turned into Whey. This is the drink which was used in this district for breakfast.
Potatoes eggs and butter were used for dinner - all home produced.
For supper potatoes or porridge and skimmed milk were eaten and drunk. Barley bread was also very commonly used. The bread was made on a griddle.
Meat was only very rarely eaten and fish was consumed occasionally.- Collector
- Caitlín Ní Dhomhnaill
- Gender
- Female
- Occupation
- Teacher
- Informant
- T. Landy
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 70