School: Talbhain (Irish Wastelands Society) (roll number 4013)
- Location:
- Knockmoyle East, Co. Galway
- Teacher: Bean Uí Fhearghail
Archival Reference
The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0051, Page 0207
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- Food in Olden Times
About six years the people used to eat two meals each day in the winter and three in Summer and harvest.
In the morning potatoes and milk and butter and in the afternoon thickly made porridge called stirabout which consisted of oatmeal and indianmeal.
This stirabout was often eaten twice daily.
Our grandfather always worked two or three hours before having breakfast.
They used milk at every meal generally butter milk.
The table was always placed on the centre of the floor at meal time and the whole family would sit around and when ever bread was used it was oatmeal bread.
The bread was made of oatmeal and butter milk and was baked standing up in front of the fire.
It was made thin and when baked it would be very hard.(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Julia Gormley
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Loughatorick, Co. Galway
