School: Rush Hall, Mountrath (roll number 12231)
- Location:
- Rush Hall, Co. Laois
- Teacher: P. Ó Lochlainn
Open data
Available under Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)
- XML School: Rush Hall, Mountrath
- XML Page 291
- XML “Churning”
- XML “Food in Olden Times”
- XML “The Local Forge”
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)pond near by so Mrs C found out who it was and so got back her butter.
- In olden times people only had three meals a day. They consisted mainly of potatoes, milk, butter and porridge. Tea was a luxury and was only partaken of an festive occasions. Bread was made of wholemeal and baked on a griddle.people always ate a lot of eggs on Easter Sundays and pancakes on Shrove Tuesday night.
- There are six or seven forges in the parish. Joe Collier is the smith at the local forge.(continues on next page)