School: Sráid na Cille, Cathair Dhún Iascaigh (roll number 15184)
- Location:
- Caher, Co. Tipperary
- Teacher: Déoirín Ní Ragháil
Archival Reference
The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0570, Page 129
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- Food
In olden days people mostly lived on potatoes, porridge and bread. They used to have two meals in the day. They used to sit around on the floor in a ring, and there was a pot in the middle of them and it was full of potatoes or whatever was the food. Then there was often a herring fried and hung up in the middle of the ring of people, and when they lifted a potato out of the pot they rubbed it against the herring and so there was a taste of herring off the potato.(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Willie Townsend
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Caher, Co. Tipperary
