School: Cluain Uamha (C.) (roll number 12828)
- Location:
- Cloyne, Co. Cork
- Teacher: E. Geeleher
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0394, Page 250
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- (continued from previous page)out in the fields at five o'clock in the morning picking potatoes etc. They had to work for two hours before their breakfast. They ate their breakfast around the fire in the mornings. People ate barley and wheat bread long ago. They baked this in a griddle. Meat was eaten twice a year - at Easter and Christmas. Fish was the chief food of the people long ago. They caught many fish and salted them and saved them. There were hung up on the rafters. Sprats are very seldom eaten and are never sold now.
Long ago people ate many eggs on Easter Sunday. This custom is kept up yet. Long ago tea was a great luxury, and it was only the well-to-do people drank it. Coffee was very much used by the poor people.(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Rose Lane
- Gender
- Female
- Informant
- Mrs Doolin
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Cloyne, Co. Cork
