School: Ráth Maoláin (roll number 16131)
- Location:
- Rathmullen, Co. Sligo
- Teacher: Laoise Ní Ruairc
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- (continued from previous page)the old people used to eat a half quarter of eggs.
- The food in olden times was not at all like the food of today.
The people lived mostly on potatoes and buttermilk and the time of the famine the potato crop failed so the people died from hunger also so this proves that they lived on potatoes.
The people also used to make boxty, griddle-cakes, potatoes, cakes, and Indian meal porridge.
The people had no cooking utensils as we have nowadays, they had no cups, no(continues on next page) - Collector
- Eibhlín Ní Fachlain
- Gender
- Female
- Informant
- Patrick Keville
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Rathmullen, Co. Sligo
