School: Ceathrú na Laithighe (Brownsgrove) (roll number 12138)

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1. The Food of the Olden Times (continued)

   

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   The porridge used to be thin like soup and they used to drink it out of a sort of cup called a "noggin" which was made of wood. The
   oatenmeal used to cost about six schillings a stone and at the time of the famine it used to cost eight schillings.
   The people used to get up at about nine o clock with the sun's time and they used to work about an hour before breakfast. This is the class of work they used to do before their breakfast - from St. Brigid's Day to St. Patrick's Day they used to dig the land and break the lumps with a "mallet" which was a stick about five or six feet long and a thick piece of timber on top of it, at the time of the turf-cutting they used to spend an hour cutting turf. After St. John's Day nearly every man used to go to England until August.
   The most people had no table but they used to leave a pot in the middle of the house and a "sciob" of potatoes over it. Then they
   used to sit on sods of turf round about and eat away. They used to peel the potatoes with their nails or with the back of the spoon.
   The people used to use a lot of salted herrings which used to be sold at

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   History Edit

   Topics

   1. táirgí
      1. táirgí bia (~3,601)

   Language

   English

   Collector

   Martin Moloney

   Gender

   Male

   Address

   Ceathrú an tSeanleasa, Co. na Gaillimhe

   Informant

   Mrs Moloney

   Relation

   Grandparent

   Gender

   Female

   Address

   Ceathrú an tSeanleasa, Co. na Gaillimhe