School: Monaghan (Christian Bros.) (roll number 16723)
- Location:
- Monaghan, Co. Monaghan
- Teacher: M. Ó Floinn
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0957, Page 205
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- (continued from previous page)before they went off they got some oat cake baked hard in the griddle. Sometimes they got the slice of a cake which was baked in an oven. They brought their dinner up with them in a little tin can. When they reached the bog they took of their boots and stockings and worked until dinner-time came. Then they all sat down on the grass to eat their dinner of butter-milk and oaten porridge. Some people took Indian porridge and butter-milk. After the porridge was finished, milk and oat cake was the next and last course.
My father did not get much beef when he was young, he used to get beef at Christmas or on any special reason.
My father remembers a time when there were only two butchers' shops in Monaghan. Long ago the people were very strong.
In my grandfather's time there was a woman who lived when Mr Rooney now lives. She was so strong that she could carry one half of a barrow on one of her shoulders and the other half on her other shoulder.
She carried this from where she lived to our house a distance of one quarter of a mile.
- Collector
- Adelaide Gillanders
- Gender
- Female
