School: Goirtín
- Location:
- Gorteen, Co. Galway
- Teacher: Máiréad Ní Dhubhthaigh
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0078, Page 265
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- The people ate three meals a day long ago. The meals were called the dinner, the breakfast and the supper. They had no special hour for eating. It was usual for the people to work before the first meal. For their breakfast, they ate oaten bread, butte and milk. They used to have potatoes for their dinner.They used to have stir- a- bout for their supper. They did not eat much meat. They lived chiefly on potatoes, milk, stir-a-bout, oaten bread, barley bread and potato cake. Some times they ate stir-a-bout for their breakfast. They had no tables and no cups. What they used were noggans and wooden mugs. They had no tea in olden times.
- Collector
- Margaret O' Brien
- Gender
- Female
- Collector
- Mollie Mannion
- Address
- Temple, Co. Galway
- Informant
- Mrs Coen
- Age
- 73
- Address
- Temple, Co. Galway
- Informant
- Mrs Dooley
- Gender
- Female
- Age
- 78
- Address
- Clogh, Co. Galway
- The table was left against the wall when no meal was in progress.
Cáca Pota
In the olden times they had a way to prepare oatmeal. First, they put down a pot of gruel to boil and then prepared an oatenmeal thin cake and put it in the pot of boiling gruel. The old people(continues on next page)
