School: Oileán Ciarraí (roll number 10956)
- Location:
- Castleisland, Co. Kerry
- Teacher: Tadhg Ó Céin
Archival Reference
The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0446, Page 533
Image and data © National Folklore Collection, UCD.
See copyright details.
DownloadOpen data
Available under Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)
Note: We will soon deprecate our XML Application Programming Interface and a new, comprehensive JSON API will be made available. Keep an eye on our website for further details.
On this page
- (continued from previous page)they often mowed two acres of in the day and they were living on potatoes. In they winter time they killed a cow, and the marrow of the bones was used for curing rash.Collected by Con Mitchel, Cragg, CastleIsland, Co. Kerry from John Lynch, (aged 83 years)
- In olden times the people had three meals per day. For their breakfast they used to have a yellow meal gruel and milk, for their dinner they used to have potatoes and some milk, and for the supper they had yellow meal bread and milk.Their eating hours were 6 o'clock for their breakfast, 12 o'clock for their dinner and 8 o'clock for their supper. They used to go to work in the morning about 4 o'clock and 2 hours before they ate their breakfast which comprised what I have mentioned above.Milk was in general used, or what they termed skimmed milk, as the cream was first taken off to make butter. Tables were not much in use in those days, and oftentimes(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Michael Mc Gillicuddy
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Killegane, Co. Kerry
- Informant
- Mrs Mary Mc Gillicuddy
- Gender
- Female
- Age
- 83
- Address
- Killegane, Co. Kerry
