School: Carraig Thuathail (B.)
- Location:
- Carraig Thuathail, Co. Chorcaí
- Teacher: John Bowdren
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0385, Page 122
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- The people only ate potatoes for their meals long ago. Three meals daily the people had. About seven o'clock they had their breakfast and they kept working until one o' clock. They had their dinner then. At seven o' clock they had their supper and they went out again until dark.
Each meal consisted of potatoes sower milk and turnips. Sometimes they had nettles and they liked them too. Wheaten bread made from ground wheat was also used for some meals.
Meat was never used until Christmas Fresh meat was used. The vegetables they had were cabbage, onions and turnips The fish used were sprats. One year the sprats were so plentiful that they were putting them out for manure. Some old man said they might want them yet and he was right. That year the potatoes failed and hundreds of people died.
The table was near the settle as there were no chairs there. For a table cloth(continues on next page)
- Collector
- John Harte
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Baile an Tiobraid Thiar, Co. Chorcaí
- Informant
- William Harte
- Relation
- Grandparent
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 81
