School: Moate or Moyvoughley (?)
- Location:
- An Móta, Co. na hIarmhí
- Teacher: -
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0745, Page 165
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- (continued from previous page)for supper. They also eat rasp which was made by grating up the raw potatoes, and mixing with boiled ones and some flour, a little salt, and a little butter-milk. This was also baked on a griddle.
- In olden times people used to diet many times a day, that is in the morning, at eleven o'clock at 2 o'clock, at 7 o'clock in the evening, and often-times before they retired to bed. The breakfast consisted of a mug of oaten porridge and buttermilk. Potatoes were used at practically all the meals. The first duty of the day was to boil a pot of(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Agnes Boland
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Baile an Chaisleáin, Co. na hIarmhí
