School: An Clochar, Cill Ruis
- Location:
- Cill Rois, Co. an Chláir
- Teacher: An tSr. Pól
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- (continued from previous page)Salt meat and vegetables were eaten very seldom. Very little fish was used except on very special occasions, when visitors were expected for dinner. Some people took milk, and home made bread - brown bread before going to bed at night. The milk or tea was drunk out of wooden mugs, which were made by the people themselves. These wooden mugs were called "Pigeens".
- The food principally in olden times was stirabout made of coarse meal, potatoes and buttermilk. Long ago when going out working people took their breakfast long before daylight. With the light of a splinter they usually ate it.
Potatoes buttermilk were used for dinner except on Christmas Day when meat was used. The table was placed in the middle of the floor covered with a tablecloth.(continues on next page)- Collector
- Mary Flanagan
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Tullagower, Co. an Chláir