School: Sceichín an Rince, Cloichín an Mhargaidh
- Location:
- Skeheenaranky, Co. Tipperary
- Teacher: Dómhnall Ua Cathasaigh
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“Long ago in Ireland the people used to eat different food to what we eat at the present day.”
(continued from previous page)People fed on yellow meal, which they called porridge. Potatoes were eaten three times a day for breakfast, dinner and supper. The servant boy or girl with salt and the farmer and his family drank milk. Meat was a great treat and was eaten by rich people on Sundays.
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Planting in RidgesAfter ploughing the field it is hacked with a grafán.
Then they are sown by making three holes across the ridge with a spade and trowing a sgiolán into each hole. They are then closed by a boy with a cronín. The furrows are then ploughed with a plough without any plate and are trenched by putting clay on each ridge and then the stalks grow quicker. In a few weeks they ploughed an trenched again. - (IV)
Preparation of Ground in Olden TimesIn the olden times people scattered dung on the they were going to set the potatoes in. Other people threw lime on the ground.
Other people burned the withered grass before making the ridges. They had no ploughs at that time. They used make the ridges with(continues on next page) - Informant
- Mary Walshe
- Gender
- Female
- Age
- 87
- Address
- Coolagarranroe, Co. Tipperary
