School: Cnoc Bríde (1)
- Location:
- Knockbride, Co. Cavan
- Teacher: (name not given)
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 1015, Page 196
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And as the fire burned low
Pat up the stairs again would go,
You'd hear the sound of every blow
He give the ribs of Feilme.
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On Thursday morning bells were rung
On Thursday night sweet songs were sung.
The bride she danced her stocking flung
And says away with Feilme.
- Long ago the breakfast consisted of oatmeal porrige boiled fresh in the morning. It was eaten in a noggin with buttermilk. A noggin was a wooden bowl with a handle. Noggins were the articles used before cups. For dinner soup and sometimes bacon with potatoes and vegetables. On a fast day they would have potatoes and buttermilk. Another dinner that was common was champ with butter on it and eaten with a cut of oatmeal bread. At night when they came in from their work they had oatmeal bread with butter on it and a noggin of sweetmilk. For their supper they had oatmeal porrige with buttermilk. They would eat these meals at a losset in the middle of the floor. A losset(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Teresa Mc Breen
- Gender
- Female
- Age
- 12
- Informant
- Francis Mc Breen
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 50
