School: Rush Hall, Mountrath (roll number 12231)
- Location:
- Rush Hall, Co. Laois
- Teacher: P. Ó Lochlainn
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0825, Page 339
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- (continued from previous page)When she had it spun.
- The food the people used to eat long ago was potatoes and salt. The people used to make cakes and the way they had to make them was to wet oaten meal with water. The crusts were very hard and people say hard bread is good for the teeth. The people's breakfast was of porridge and nothing else.What they had for their dinner was potatoes and salt and maybe the same for their tea. Sometimes they had not three meals.They did not know what tea was and milk was not very plentiful.
- Informant
- Mrs Lalor
- Gender
- Female
- Age
- 55
- Occupation
- Dress-maker
- Address
- Coolrain, Co. Laois
