School: Clochar Lughaidh, Coillte Mághach
- Location:
- Kiltimagh, Co. Mayo
- Teacher: -
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0119, Page 221
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- (continued from previous page)the same food for each meal, except if they had porridge left over since morning. They also drank buttermilk. The old people had it as a custom to sit round a table placed in the centre of the floor. When the tables were not in use they were hung up against the wall.Oatmeal bread was the only kind of bread was the only kind of bread used. The cakes were baked by putting them standing up straight against a clean flag before the fire. Meat was hardly ever used and whenever one got a piece of meat it was fresh calf meat called veal, which cost half crown a calf.(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Nellie Concannon
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Kincon, Co. Mayo
- Informant
- John Concannon
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Kincon, Co. Mayo
