School: Ráth gCaola (B.) (roll number 1282)

Location:
Rathkeale, Co. Limerick
Teacher:
Seán Ó Coindealbháin
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  1. People used to often have to eat grass long ago. The time of the Famine.
    The people used to have to make their own flour and bake their own bread.
    They used to get a big stone and a stick, Then they would keep beating the wheat with the stick until it would be flour. The people used to be very glad with whatever food they would get long ago.
    The people used to eat brown bread, sour milk, porrige, potatoes. They used to drink the sour milk.
    Transcribed by a member of our volunteer transcription project.
    Topics
    1. products
      1. food products (~3,601)
    Language
    English
    Collector
    Tony Dunne
    Gender
    Male
    Informant
    Mrs Dunne
    Gender
    Female