School: Meelick (B.)
- Location:
- Meelick, Co. Clare
- Teacher: Eoghan Ó Néill
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times a week .it was only about 1 1/2d per lb.Veal ,beef and sometimes corned beef.Home-cured bacon
Supper-Potatoes and porridge .
People drank a lot of milk -skim principally.
Table was against the wall and was drawn out in mid.of floor for meals.All sat around it.
Two sorts of bread-potato -cake and wholemeal bread.There ws also plenty of ordinary white flour.Querns were used in living memory .Later home-grown wheat was milled in local mills.
Salt herrings quite common.
Salt herrings and salt being very common for Good Friday.Goose was a special dish .Christmas and at Easter beef(continues on next page)
