School: Liath-Mhuine

Location:
Leaffony, Co. Sligo
Teacher:
Bean Mhic Fhionnlaoich
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0163, Page 424

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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0163, Page 424

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  1. In olden times the people ate but three meals per day. Breakfast, Dinner, and supper. The people went to work in the fields at dawn and worked for several hour, before being called to breakfast. This meal usually consisted of potatoes and buttermilk.
    Dinner was served at mid-Day and consisted of potatoes and fish, usually salted, or veal.
    The latter only when a bull-calf was born, for on account of its worthlessness it was slaughtered immediately after birth and so supplied the farmer and his family with meat for a considerable time.
    For supper they had stirabout eaten with milk and when milk was scarce they used a subsitute which was called "súghan". This was prepared by steeping oatenmeal in water and the liquid when drained off was eaten with the stirabout
    Transcribed by a member of our volunteer transcription project.
    Topics
    1. products
      1. food products (~3,601)
    Language
    English
    Collector
    Joan Lyons
    Gender
    Female
    Address
    Cooga, Co. Sligo