School: Cluain Taidhg (Clontead), Achadh Cóiste (roll number 14023)

Location:
Clontead More, Co. Cork
Teacher:
Máire, Bean Uí Mhurchadha
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0345, Page 085

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    wheaten bread. It was baked in an open griddle. Meat was eaten when it was able to be got and that was seldom. They used to kill a cow or a pig for christmas. It was generally salt meat. Fish was rarely eaten in the main land but sometimes they used have red herrings.
    The main vegetables were cabbage and turnips and in the years of the famine they used to eat the turnips raw. In olden days they used to eat water cress which is rarely eaten now.
    Cakes containing currants were only eaten at stations, at weddings and at christmas. A jar of whiskey was only got at christmas. Tea came into general use a few years after the famine. The vessels used before cups became common were timber mugs called porringers.
    Transcribed by a member of our volunteer transcription project.
    Topics
    1. products
      1. food products (~3,601)
    Language
    English
    Collector
    Eileen Murphy
    Gender
    Female
    Informant
    Mr J. O' Dwyer
    Gender
    Male
    Address
    Coolacullig, Co. Cork