School: Baile Theas (B.), Malla (roll number 4953)
- Location:
- Ballyhass, Co. Cork
- Teacher: Tadhg Ó Hanluain
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0364, Page 336
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- (continued from previous page)on Saturdays and for every other day they used to eat bread made of water and flour. The people made all their own food and drinks such as butter cheese flour oat-meal. They killed and cured their own bacon and beef. They made their own cider wines and whiskeys. Long ago people had to fast from milk on Ash Wednesday and on Good Friday. Before they went to bed at night they used to have oat-meal mixed with milk. They used to cook their meat in a "Folach Fiadh". There was a large hole in the ground in which they kept a great pot made of oak. No fire could be lit underneath this because it would burn. The used to light a fire near it and get brown stones and heat them in the fire and throw them into the water. In this way they used to boil the meat.Edmund Donoghue, Knockardsharine
- Informant
- Mr Edmond Donoghue
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Knockardsharriv, Co. Cork
