School: Fothanach (roll number 7980)

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1. Food in Olden Times

   

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   1. Long ago people ate three meals a day. They had porridge at seven o’clock in the morning. In some places people used to work before eating their morning meal. They used milk with their meals. They had buttermilk with potatoes for their dinner. The table was always by the wall. Oatmeal bread was the bread they used. They made it by putting meal in a bread board and wetting it with water and putting a pinch of salt in it. Tea did not become common in the district until about fifty years ago.

   2. The people of this district used to eat three meals a day. They bought American bacon for two pence a pound, fish were very plenty and the people ate a lot of them. The vegetables they ate were turnips boiled with oaten meal and salt. On the tenth of November a cock is eaten in honour of Saint Marlin. Tea was first in this district seventy years ago. The vessels that were timber mugs called noggins.

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   1. products
      1. food products (~3,601)

   Language

   English

   Collector

   Jim Miskell

   Gender

   Male

   Address

   Doon Lower, Co. Galway

   Collector

   Lily Mc Loughlin

   Gender

   Female

   Address

   Ballynabanaba, Co. Galway

   Collector

   Martin Kenny

   Gender

   Male

   Informant

   Patrick Sweeney

   Gender

   Male

   Address

   Fohanagh, Co. Galway

   Informant

   Mrs Mc Loughlin

   Relation

   Parent

   Gender

   Female

   Address

   Ballynabanaba, Co. Galway

   Informant

   Mrs Miskell

   Relation

   Parent

   Gender

   Female

   Address

   Doon Lower, Co. Galway

   Informant

   Thomas Kenny

   Relation

   Parent

   Gender

   Male