School: Drumacruttan (roll number 10282)
- Location:
- Drumacruttan, Co. Monaghan
- Teacher: Rreard A. Maclyam
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0958, Page 233
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- (continued from previous page)number of farmers to join in a fat cow and kill her and salt her and divide her between them and they would nearly always have soup and beef for their dinner in the winter time and champ and butter in the Summer time. They took porridge to their supper at night. The people took butter-milk to their porridge. The people sat round a table in the centre of the floor. Oaten bread was mostly eaten. The way in which oaten bread was made was first you got some oaten meal and put it into a dish and mixed it with water and then you rolled it out thin and put it on a griddle on the fire to bake. Food was eaten three times a day in the morning and dinner-time and supper. Fish and vegetables were eaten. People did not eat late at night except there was a dance. Different kinds of foods were eaten on special occasions. Eggs were eaten on Easter Sunday and apples.(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Evelyn Pollock
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Feragh, Co. Monaghan
- Informant
- Mr John Pollock
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 55
- Address
- Feragh, Co. Monaghan
