School: Convent of Mercy, Athlone
- Location:
- Athlone, Co. Westmeath
- Teacher: Sr Regis
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0749, Page 111
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- Potatoes and salt and stir-about were the chief foods known. The potatoes, when boiled, were thrown into a skib in the middle of the floor. The people sat around and eat them with salt. There was sometimes a kind of food like suet which hung from the ceiling and they took a bite of it with the potato - this was called potatoes and ha. They peeled the potatoes with their fingers and often when a crowd would be in the bog cutting turf, potatoes were brought out and roasted in the open for them.
The people worked before breakfast, there was no tea when they got up at six o'clock.(continues on next page)
- Informant
- Miss Kathleen Harrison
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Brideswell, Co. Roscommon
