School: St John of God Convent, Rathdowney (roll number 16203)
- Location:
- Rathdowney, Co. Laois
- Teacher: The Sisters
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0828, Page 105
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- For vegetables they used cabbage and in the Spring they said that a disease used spread among the people and as a cure they boiled young nettles and dressed it as they dress cabbage.
When flailing or threshing the corn they used to boil a pot of potatoes and a skillet or small pot of eggs an when they were finished a table was put across the floor and a cloth spread across in a ridge along the table and the eggs spread along at each side of the potatoes and a bowl of salt and butter-milk. On Sunday they would have wheaten-bread and hot milk for supper.
- Richard Hoholan who is abut seventy years and resides in Kylemelawn told me there was scarcely any tea used about hundred years ago or even when he was a small boy going to school. Anyone who drank tea them was regarded as a wealthy person.(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Alice Tighe
- Gender
- Female
- Age
- 14
- Informant
- Richard Hoholan
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- c. 70
- Address
- Kyleamullaun, Co. Laois
