School: Ballydurrow
- Location:
- Ballaghdorragh, Co. Cavan
- Teacher: S. Ó Hadarnáin
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0998, Page 339
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- The old people in this locality used to eat different kinds of food to that they use nowadays. In the morning the men went out to work fasting and after about an hour and a half and sometimes two hours they came in for their breakfast of oaten stirabout and buttermilk. Often it was Indian meal stirabout quite then, and used with a noggin of sour milk.
It dinner hour they boiled potatoes were put in a basket. The latter was left sitting on the pot in which the potatoes were boiled. In the middle of the basket the pan of cabbage was left sitting. The whole family sat on stools round the basket, in the middle of the kitchen flour. Each would have a spoon to eat the cabbage and they peeled the potatoes with the fingers. They also drank buttermilk in Noggins; or wooden vessels about six inches in diameter and eight inches high. Each "Noggin" held about a quart. It was made of little staves of wood, kept together by three ash hoops. On the staves was left up two inches about the others and this served as a(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Kitty Cadden
- Gender
- Female
- Informant
- James Cadden
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Ballaghdorragh, Co. Cavan
