School: Mount Stewart, Ceapach Chuinn
- Location:
- Mountstuart, Co. Waterford
- Teacher: Úna, Bean Uí Chonaire
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- The people of the olden times had only three meals in the day. Potatoes and salt and sour milk they had and when the potatoes were scarce they had yellow meal porridge that was half-boiled and buttermilk. They did two hours work before breakfast.
They used fish called 'picidogs' or 'scailpíní'. They seldom used meat but at Christmas and Easter it was a luxury. They would eat the flesh of any animal that would die.
They made three kinds of bread - wheaten, oaten and barley. The people were like giants. They were far stronger than the people of the present day. They used work very hard.
When the Famine was in Ireland in the year 1847 people died by the roadsides and in the fields in thousands with hunger and fever. They had to eat(continues on next page)- Collector
- Mary Shalloe
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Knocknaglogh Upper, Co. Waterford