School: Brughtheine (B.), Malla
- Location:
- Churchtown, Co. Cork
- Teacher: Tomás Ó Tighearnaigh
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“Long ago the people lived chiefly on potatoes.”
Long ago the people lived chiefly on potatoes. They boiled them in a big pot and when they were boiled and strained they threw them up on a table with perhaps a bag underneath. If they were lucky enough they would have gravy - sometimes called dip.
The gravy was made by putting a grain of salt into the water.
Sometimes for gravy they boiled a herring which the father and mother ate and the water that was left was given to the children as dip. They had no forks nor knives and they peeled the potatoes with their thumb nail.
They ate three feeds of nettles in May to keep away the power of the fairies.
- Collector
- Sam Costelloe
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Churchtown, Co. Cork
- Informant
- Mr Thomas Costelloe
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 45
- Address
- Churchtown, Co. Cork