School: An Clochar, Port Omna

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   out of noggens. They ate potatoes and salt and buttermilk for their dinner and oaten stirabout for their tea. They used to grow their own meal and grind it with a quern - two greek stones with a hole in the centure of each stone and a piece of wood for a handle and they used to twist the handle to make the wheat into whole-meal.
   For their dinner they placed a skib in the middle of the floor and oat around it and peeled their potatoes with their nails and ate them out of their hands with salt and drank buttermilk. They also ate cabbage dressed with lard and also salted herrings. They roasted them over fire on a tongs.
   When the Irish people got the tea first they did not know how to

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   History Edit

   Topics

   1. products
      1. food products (~3,601)

   Language

   English

   Collector

   Patsy Hishon

   Gender

   Male

   Address

   Portumna, Co. Galway

   Informant

   Joseph Williams

   Gender

   Male

   Address

   Portumna, Co. Galway