School: Streamstown (roll number 15291)
- Location:
- Streamstown, Co. Westmeath
- Teacher: S. Garland
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0733, Page 255
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- (continued from previous page)loaf and a barm brack and a small amount of tea and sugar. Dumplings were also eaten. Meat was very seldom eaten except at Christmas and when it was eaten it was bacon.
Sometimes during the famine years kids and horseflesh were eaten. Cabbage was the principal vegetable used and this was used with the bacon. Turnips were also eaten in large quantities.
It was usual to eat porridge late at night before going to bed. The chief delicacies at Christmas were loaves and tea and intoxicating drink. The food they ate long ago was very different from that eaten nowadays but we hear the old people(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Mona Montgomery
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Streamstown, Co. Westmeath
- Informant
- Paddy Scott
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 78
- Address
- Streamstown, Co. Westmeath
