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School: Hollyfort (roll number 12523)

Location:
Hollyfort, Co. Wexford
Teacher:
Mabel Vaughan
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0888, Page 298

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    Food was scarce in those days, and some work was generally done before the first meal. Often at dinner time the potatoes were emptied out of the pot on to a cloth and then lifted up on the table, and they eat them with new milk. Sometimes the dinner consisted of yellow meal porridge which was brought out to the men in the fields. They eat this with skim milk. Porridge was eaten off pewter plates and there are a number of these, still in many farmhouses.
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    History Edit
    Topics
    1. products
      1. food products (~3,601)
    Language
    English
    Collector
    May Bass
    Gender
    Female
    Age
    12
    Address
    Ballingarry Lower, Co. Wexford
    Informant
    Miss Gordon
    Relation
    Relative (other than parent or grandparent)
    Gender
    Female
    Address
    Ballingarry Lower, Co. Wexford