School: Carrigaline (3) (roll number 12097)
- Location:
- Carrigaline, Co. Cork
- Teacher: Martha Levis
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0392, Page 246
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- (continued from previous page)salt meat was eaten fish was commonly used and vegetables. The vegetables sometimes used were nettles. They had no tea and they had supper about 9 or 10 O' clock. Easter Sunday or at Christmas was a great treat to those people, as many of them only had a cup of tea at Christmas. In those days big cups were used made of earthen ware and it was in those they made the tea.
- In olden times people eat meals three times a day each meal consisted of gruel and milk for breackfast. Stir-about made from Indian meal for supper potatoes and milk for dinner. They also eat fish. The chief food was potatoes which sometimes they eat three times a day with sour milk or buttermilk. They very often had potatoes and sheep's milk.(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Harry Wolfe
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Shanagraigue, Co. Cork
