School: Slane (C.) (roll number 4852)
- Location:
- Slane, Co. Meath
- Teacher: Josephine Cooney
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- (continued from previous page)On Christmas day as a very special treat tea was drunk and beef eaten. On certain feasts of the year certain foods were eaten such as plum pudding, roast beef and turkey at Christmas, pancakes at shrove, eggs at Easter, Colcannon, nuts and apples at Halloween and goose on Michelmas day. Wooden noggins were used before cups came into use.
- Sometimes the people sat round a wicker basket full of potatoes on the centre of the floor and peeled the potatoes with their fingers and drank milk from a porringers or noggins which was a vessel used in olden times, later porringers and bowls were also used.
- Collector
- Eilis Murtagh
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Slane, Co. Meath