1. dúchas.ie
  2. The Schools' Collection
  3. Tíréaltan, Maghcromtha

School: Tíréaltan, Maghcromtha (roll number 13286)

Location:
Teerelton, Co. Cork
Teacher:
Dd. Ó Murchadha
Browse
Mode:
The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0340, Page 024

Archival Reference

The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0340, Page 024

Image and data © National Folklore Collection, UCD.

See copyright details.

Download

Open data

Available under Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)

  1. XML School: Tíréaltan, Maghcromtha
  2. XML Page 024
  3. XML “Food in the Olden Times”

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

  1. Food in the Olden Times (continued)

    Share Share Post
    (continued from previous page)
    afford the same for supper but it was more often a feed of Indian meal called stirabout with skim milk. This was surely a poor sort of diet but my father and the old man said that they were a great many poor families who had not even that. Neither had some the table to lay the victuals on. The potatoes were thrown into a basket commonly called a "sciathog out of which the family ate the contents.
    Transcribed by a member of our volunteer transcription project.
    History Edit
    Topics
    1. products
      1. food products (~3,601)
    Language
    English
    Collector
    Margaret Riordan
    Gender
    Female
    Informant
    Eugene O' Riordan
    Gender
    Male
    Address
    Cooldorragha, Co. Cork