School: Bán-Tír (B.) (roll number 2803)
- Location:
- Banteer, Co. Cork
- Teacher: Seán Ó Síothcháin
Archival Reference
The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0361, Page 587
Image and data © National Folklore Collection, UCD.
See copyright details.
DownloadOpen data
Available under Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)
- XML School: Bán-Tír (B.)
- XML Page 587
- XML “Food”
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
- (continued from previous page)this district, except at Easter or Christmas, when it consisted of home-cured bacon, and boiled or roast goose for Christmas day. Salt hake, and salt herring were sold in the shops, and it was a common custom for the men folk to poach the small rivers during the Winter season for salmon. Men often travelled as far as from Dingle to Banteer selling "sprat", at a penny a plate When salmon were got, they were gutted and washed, and plenty of salt rubbed in. A barrel was placed in a hole in the ground in a hidden place. The salmon were put in this with plenty of salt, the barrel covered, and a heavy weight put down on the cover. The fish was taken from the barrel as required. Sometimes the fresh fish was hung in the chimney over the smoke, and this was considered the nicer way for curing it.
On Shrove Tuesday night, where a big family lived in one house, a quarter of a calf would be bought for six of eight pence, roasted, and eaten, in preparation for the fasting season of Lent.
- Collector
- John Barry
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Banteer, Co. Cork
- Informant
- Mrs Mary Cronin
- Gender
- Female
- Age
- 69
- Address
- Banteer, Co. Cork
