School: Cluain Taidhg (Clontead), Achadh Cóiste (roll number 14023)
- Location:
- Clontead More, Co. Cork
- Teacher: Máire, Bean Uí Mhurchadha
Archival Reference
The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0345, Page 084
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- The number of meals the people had in olden days was three. They were breakfast, dinner, and super. The breakfast was about nine o'clock, the dinner at midday and the supper at night fall. The people used to work for a few hours in the morning before their breakfast.
The morning meal consisted of "stirabout", new milk, and before the years of the famine they used to have potatoes for the breakfast. For the dinner they used have potatoes, thick milk and sometimes a red herring. For the supper they used have stirabout and thick milk or buttermilk. The stirabout was made of Indian meal and a little flour through it. Men used also eat raw oatmeal in olden days. When there were large families the table was placed in the centre of the floor. In small houses the table used be stood up against the wall. The bread that was eaten was called(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Eileen Murphy
- Gender
- Female
- Informant
- Mr J. O' Dwyer
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Coolacullig, Co. Cork
