School: Clochar na Toirbhirte, Durlas Éile (roll number 4068)
- Location:
- Thurles, Co. Tipperary
- Teacher: An tSr. Albert
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0553, Page 018
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- Indian meal, barley bread, turnips, and potatoes were the chief food in olden times. For their breakfast they used porridge name from the Indian-meal. The porridge used to be so thin that they used to put it out in the sun to set Potatoes and sour milk were used for their dinner, and a piece of barley-bread for their supper. Meat was never used except on special occasions. The table was always kept on the middle of the floor. Puter saucers and wooden spoons were used. Butter-milk and sour milk were used for drinking. Every person used to eat a dozen eggs on Easter Sunday.
- Collector
- Alice Darmody
- Gender
- Female
- Informant
- John Horan
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 50
- Address
- Newhill, Co. Tipperary
