School: Skeoghvosteen, Goresbridge (roll number 16140)
- Location:
- Skeaghvasteen, Co. Kilkenny
- Teacher: Liam Ó Conchobhair
Archival Reference
The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0858, Page 013
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
- The people in olden days used to eat three meals a day, brekfast dinner and supper. They used to eat their brekfast at six o'clock and their supper at eight o clock and their dinner at twelve o clock. The people used to work in the morning before their breakfast.
Before the Famine they used to eat potatoes and drink buttermilk three times a day and after the Famine the used to eat porridge three times a day.
"The table was placed against the wall. When the table was not in use it used to be hung up against the wall.(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Kathleen Murphy
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Annaleck Lower, Co. Kilkenny
- Informant
- Michael Murphy
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Annaleck Lower, Co. Kilkenny
