School: Doirín an Lomáin (roll number 14235)
- Location:
- Derreennalomane, Co. Cork
- Teacher: Seán de Barra
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0292, Page 100
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- Long ago they used to eat turnips, cabbage, and parsnips. They used to eat yellow-meal stirabout for dinner and breakfast, but it is scarcely used now-a-days. People long ago had a supper of skim milk and potatoes and salt immediately before going to bed which used to be about ten o'clock. Certain kinds of food were eaten on special occasions. If a person was sick and was not able to take ordinary food they used to take loaf or biscuits or some lighter kind of food. No eggs, meat, butter or milk were used on Ash-Wednesday and Good-Friday. About fifty or sixty years ago tea was first used. Tin cans were used instead of cups in olden times.
- Collector
- James Hellen
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Rathruane Beg, Co. Cork
- Informant
- Cornelius Hellen
- Relation
- Parent
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 46
- Address
- Rathruane Beg, Co. Cork
