School: St Bridget's (roll number 13854)
- Location:
- Derrymore, Co. Mayo
- Teacher: Máire Uí hOistín
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0138D, Page 13_027
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- (continued from previous page)used not eat at the table but at a chair. If they had potatoes they used put them out on a scib. They would leave the scib on a bucket in the middle of the floor and sit round it.
They used eat no meat but on Christmas Night when a ewe was killed. They used leave a meal of potatoes for eating with the ewe on Christmas Night.
The bread was made from stirabout and yellow meal mixed to-gether. They used have fish that they had caught on wet days sometimes.
Some of the people used have vegetables. Nearly every family would have a bit of cabbage. They used cut up a head of cabbage, and shake(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Peigí C. Ní Oistín
- Gender
- Female
- Informant
- Tadhg Ó hOistín
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Tawnyslinnaun, Co. Mayo
