School: Carrigaline (3) (roll number 12097)
- Location:
- Carrigaline, Co. Cork
- Teacher: Martha Levis
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0392, Page 248
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- (continued from previous page)as porridge. Potatoes were eaten at nearly every meal. The potatoes were very often eaten just with salt or sometimes with "dip" which was milk and a little salt mixed. Sometimes they had potatoes and sour milk for dinner they again had potatoes and milk and a little fish or salt meat for dinner. In many houses the potatoes were thrown into a basket made of twigs and placed in the middle of the floor The people all gathered round and took some potatoes. Sometimes it is said that a piece of fish or meat was hung down in the middle of the potatoes and was not to be eaten.
- Collector
- John Daunt
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Fahalea, Co. Cork
