School: Cnoc an Éin Fhinn (Birdhill) (roll number 13991)
- Location:
- Cooleen, Co. Tipperary
- Teacher: Micheál Ó Meachair
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0539, Page 100
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- (continued from previous page)eating they would put it back by the wall again. Some of the people used have to work before their breakfast. The cups that they used were called goblets that were made from cows horns. The people used never have any meat unless at Christmas or Easter.Food in Olden Times
In the olden times people used only eat two meals a day. The two meals were their breakfast and supper. There (sic) breakfast consisted of oatmeal baked into bread. Their supper was a six o'clock and it consisted of stirabout and sometimes potatoes and salt. The people had no meat like nowadays. When Christmas and Easter would come round a couple of ounces of tea would be bought and a couple of pounds of meat. Sometimes a table was for the people to eat off if used to be pulled down on the centre of the floor and when the people used to be finished eating they would put it back against the wall again. The children were not allowed to eat with their parents, they would have to go out until their parents would be finished eating and then they would get what would be left.
- Collector
- Maura Gleeson
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Ballyhane Cross Roads, Co. Tipperary
- Informant
- Mr John Murnane
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 50
- Occupation
- Farmer
- Address
- Ballyhane Cross Roads, Co. Tipperary
