School: Sruth Nua
- Location:
- Ardnacally, Co. Mayo
- Teacher: Tomás de Brún
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Food in olden times
Long ago the people used to eat three meals and sometimes two
The people used to work before the first meal because it used not to be cooked.
For the first meal they used to have potatoes for the dinner they used to have oat-meal bread and for the supper Indian meal porridge.
Some of the people had no cow stall They used to make milk out of oaten-meal by putting water in it Some of them had a cow or else a goat or sheep.
The tables long ago were not as the tables now. I was hung(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Mary Hogan
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Newbrook, Co. Mayo
- Informant
- John Hogan
- Relation
- Unknown
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Newbrook, Co. Mayo
