School: Ladhar (C.), Bán-Tír (roll number 8665)
- Location:
- Lyre, Co. Cork
- Teacher: Síle, Bean Uí Chéilleachair
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0361, Page 089
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- The kind of food the people ate long ago was coarse, Indian meal made into porridge, and potatoes.
They were far healthier and stronger than the people that are there now.
They should be up very early in the morning and had to work very hard.
The time they ate their meals was in the morning and at night.
They only ate two meals; one of gruel and the other of potatoes.
They used to drink sour milk at every meal.
The kind of bread they ate was bread made from potatoes which was called "stampy".
They used to sit around the table in the middle of the floor to eat their meals.
Meat was very seldom eaten in those days.
The kind of meat they ate was a goose.
Fish was very often eaten in those times but now it is seldom eaten.
The only time they had different kinds of food was at Christmas, at weddings and at christenings.
It is about seventy years ago, since tea first came in the district.
The clothes the people wore long ago(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Gobnait Ní Cheallacháin
- Gender
- Female
- Informant
- Joseph O Callahan
- Gender
- Male
