School: Ráth gCaola (2) (roll number 10929)
- Location:
- Rathkeale, Co. Limerick
- Teacher: Sinéad Ní Chnuic
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0501, Page 138
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- (continued from previous page)wheat was badly ground.People very seldom ate meat, and they thought themselves very lucky if they had a piece of veal, herring or bacon once a week. The meat was usually salted, as the bacon and the veal were cured by the people themselves. Turnips and cabbage were the two chief vegetables eaten.Only three meals a day were eaten and no one ate anything from the time they had their supper until breakfast next morning.Some years ago children boiled eggs very hard and bowled them on Easter Monday.
This custom is dying out now. Everyone ate as many eggs as they could on Easter Sunday morning.Before cups became common in this district mugs, piggins or noggins were used.Tea was used in this district over sixty years ago. When it first came into use people had it on special occasions such as Christmas or Easter.
- Collector
- Walter Modler
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Courtmatrix, Co. Limerick
