School: Ballyfeeny (roll number 9468)
- Location:
- Kilglass, Co. Roscommon
- Teacher: Cáit, Bean Uí Mhurthuile
Archival Reference
The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0255, Page 424
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- Folk-Lore.
Food in Olden times.
In olden times people were very healthy more-so than nowadays, because they eat only three meals a day, morning, noon and night.
This consisted of porridge and buttermilk in the morning and potatoes and buttermilk and sometimes butter, at dinner-time. Oaten-meal bread was sometimes food for supper but usually porridge.
The oaten-meal bread was baked on a griddle or before the fire. It was very hard but the people had sound teeth at that time.
The oaten-meal was stored in bags when it was brought from the mill.s
The people packed the meal tightly with pounders, and all the meal they would get would last for a year.
People use to do a half-day's work before breakfast. When working in the fields, people use to drink oaten meal juice, steeped the night before.
- Collector
- Josepha Mac Dermott
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Pollymount, Co. Roscommon
- Informant
- Mrs Dermott
- Relation
- Parent
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Pollymount, Co. Roscommon
