School: Clonmellon (B.) (roll number 9500)
- Location:
- Clonmellon, Co. Westmeath
- Teacher: P. Ó Droighneáin
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0725, Page 131
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- (continued from previous page)was taken over by the commissioners and divided into smaller farms. Tithes were collected for Minister Rudd.
- The people used to eat three meals each day, breakfast, dinner, and supper. The people used to go out to mow and plant the potatoes before their breakfast. their breakfast they used to east porridge and potatoes. There was a pot and a basket for a table and the potatoes were put in it. The people used to eat late at night. Concannon was eaten on Hollow Eve. Pancakes were eaten on shrove Tuesday. Tea was used about one hundred years ago. Noggins were used before cups became common
- Collector
- Seán Shaw
- Gender
- Male
- Informant
- James Reilly
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Clonmellon, Co. Westmeath
- can not find anything about querns. The kind of bread that was eaten was oaten bread, potato cake and wheaten bread. Oaten bread was made with oaten meal, salt and soft water. The bread is left standing at the fire. Potato cake was made from potatoes, flour and salt and baked in an oven. Wheaten bread was made by mixing, wheaten meal, soda salt and butter milk together. It was baked in an oven. The was a cross put on the top of a wheaten cake to let in air.
