School: Belcarra (Buachaillí)

Location:
Ballycarra, Co. Mayo
Teacher:
Seosamh Ó Heireamhóin
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0094, Page 328

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  1. One time the people used to eat three meals a day, the dinner, breakfast, and supper. They used to eat the breakfast at nine oclock and the dinner at one oclock and the supper at eight oclock. They used to have porridge and milk for the breakfast. They used to have potatoes and buttermilk for the dinner. They used to have oat meal cake at supper. They use to have the table in the middle of the floor. In some houses where the people were very poor the used to have no table at all. When dinner came the used to have a pot in the middle of the floor and a scib left on top of it and a jug of buttermilk in the middle of it. The people used to eat three different kind of bread, boxty bread, and oat meal bread and caisgín bread. The make boxty bread out of potatoes and flour and bake them. They used to make oat meal cake with oat meal and water. Then they used to get a big flag and put the cake standing up on it until it would be baked.
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    Topics
    1. products
      1. food products (~3,601)
    Language
    English
    Collector
    James Mac Donnel
    Gender
    Male
    Address
    Ballinlassa, Co. Mayo
    Informant
    Patrick Mac Donnell
    Relation
    Parent
    Gender
    Male
    Age
    40