School: Ráth Mhór (B.) (roll number 16987)
- Location:
- Rathmore, Co. Kerry
- Teacher: Diarmuid Ó Cróinín
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0451, Page 035
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- The old people had but three meals a day. In Knocknaboul and Tirnaboul they had only two, the breakfast and supper. The breakfast in all places consisted of goats milk, salt and oaten meal. Many a man went out before his breakfast cut and shelled oats, ground it in the "curran", and ate it for his breakfast. The "curran" was a round stone with a hole in the centre, and another stone to grind the oats. Potatoes were eaten only once a day.
Very seldom had people a table or chair. The keeler turned upside-down served as a table and a sod of turf as a chair. The only bread eaten was oaten meal, mixed with goats milk, and this was only done on special occasins.
"Jack the Fish" used to come around(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Díarmuid Óg Ó Cróinín
- Gender
- Male
- Informant
- Timothy Ó Brosnan
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 82
- Address
- Meentoges, Co. Kerry
