School: Tyrrellspass (C) (roll number 6040)
- Location:
- Tyrrellspass, Co. Westmeath
- Teacher: Bean Uí Chonduibh
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0731, Page 449
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- Around here now the food used is much the same as that used in all other districts. The principal food for dinner is bacon and cabbage with potates. On fast days boiled eggs are eaten with potates and butter.
I have heard of some poor people who fry their potatoes in flour and water a kind of thin paste like substance, seasoned with pepper and salt.
These have no milk or butter and no money to procure it.
On Christmas day people have generally have a goose for dinner and this is followed by a nice pudding.
They rear turkeys for sale but not for their own dinner.
Oatmeal porridge is scarcely ever used here. People use the man obtained in packages instead, flake meal(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Maura Conniffe
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Tyrrellspass, Co. Westmeath
- Informant
- Mrs Payne
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Tyrrellspass, Co. Westmeath
