School: Ringville, Slieverue (roll number 6621)
- Location:
- Ringville, Co. Kilkenny
- Teacher: Síle de Paor
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0845, Page 042
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- Long ago people ate two meals a day.
Their food consisted of potatoes and thick milk. They boiled a big pot of potatoes put them in the middle of the table. They were eaten with salt and thick milk. Later they had oaten bread. It was baked in a griddle and was very hard. The better of people killed their own pig and cured the meat themselves. Californian fish was eaten always of Christmas Eve "Ling". On Easter Sunday people ate all the eggs they possibly could- often 6 or 8. Large mugs were used before cups. The tea was made in tea drawers- kind of tin cans with a spout- not in teapots.
About 100 years ago tea was only drunk at Christmas and Easter.
Oaten meal stirabout was eaten at night.
- Collector
- Maureen Dillon
- Gender
- Female
- Informant
- John Dillon
- Gender
- Male
