School: Moynalty (C.)
- Location:
- Moynalty, Co. Meath
- Teacher: (name not given)
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0706, Page 085
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- (continued from previous page)They drank buttermilk and sometimes they ate Indian bread, potatoe bread.
Oaten bread was made by mixing oaten meal with butter milk and baking it. It was baked by putting it standing against a sod of turf or some other thing before the fire.
Potatoe Bread was made by mixing boiled potatoes with some and baking them. The bread was baked in a hot oven or on a griddle.
In Lent people never ate anything till after twelve o'clock in the day that was the people who were twenty-one years of age.
On certain feast people used to eat special food.
Easter Sunday - they ate eggs on Easter Sunday and the person who ate the most eggs was considered the best.
Shrove Tuesday - pancakes were eaten on Shrove Tuesday and St John's day. (It was a custom to eat cul).
Colcannon was eaten on Hallowe'en and when supper was over a plateful was left out-side on the window this was left to appease bad and wicked faries.(continues on next page)
- Informant
- Thomas Govern
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Donore, Co. Meath
- Informant
- Thomas Smyth
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Ballintlieve, Co. Meath
