School: Rosses's Point (roll number 12133)
- Location:
- Rosses Point, Co. Sligo
- Teacher: Seosamh Ó Raighne
Archival Reference
The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0158, Page 213
Image and data © National Folklore Collection, UCD.
See copyright details.
DownloadOpen data
Available under Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)
Note: We will soon deprecate our XML Application Programming Interface and a new, comprehensive JSON API will be made available. Keep an eye on our website for further details.
On this page
- In it there were five rooms and a kitchen. It had a thatched roof, it was white washed and had an earthen floor, and a wide open hearth.
In some houses in the upper Rosses they used to fold up the table and put it up against the wall. Of all the houses in the Rosses only one knive could be got, and it belonged to a soldier named Waters. All the other people used to use wooden knives and forks and spoons, for they were well able to cut the food used that time. Very little meat was used. And it was a great treat to get tea. The most common food used was potatoes new milk buttermilk and wholeflour bread
- Collector
- D. Burns
- Address
- Rosses Point, Co. Sligo
- Informant
- P. Gillan
