School: Páirc na Coille
- Location:
- Woodfield, Co. Roscommon
- Teacher: Énrí Ó Maolagáin
Archival Reference
The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0233, Page 316
Image and data © National Folklore Collection, UCD.
See copyright details.
DownloadOpen data
Available under Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)
- XML School: Páirc na Coille
- XML Page 316
- 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)eaten was oaten bread. The bread was made by mixing the oat-meal with water and making it into a cake, and putting it on a grid-iron before the fire to bake. The kind of meat that was generally eaten was Irish bacon. Sometimes fish was eaten with potatoes. The people never used to eat late at night. At Christmas the people used to get special kinds of food such as tea. They used to eat eggs on Easter Sunday. The people used to used wooden sauspans before cups became common.
- Collector
- Maureen Mc Keon
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Derreenaseer, Co. Roscommon
