Scoil: St Patrick's, Aughnacliffe (uimhir rolla 13283)

Ar an leathanach seo

1. Kind of Food in Olden Times (ar lean)

   

   Roinn Roinn Postáil

   (ar lean ón leathanach roimhe)

   it was made. There was the half-full of a basin of meal got. It was wet with boiling water and mixed until it was firm. Then is was shaped into a cake and left before the fire on a griddle to bake. When it was brown and hard it was lifted and eaten. Fishes were the only meat in those days salty and fresh herrings, perches, pikes, eels and trout. Potatoes were the food eaten with those fish. In the time of the famine. "Dark 47 and 48 as it was called when the blight came on the potatoes for the first time in Irish memory thousands died of starvation and hunger as the potatoes failed to produce a sufficent amount to support the people throughout the year. This happened for several years until at last wise men found out that blue-stone and lime mixed together was able to kill the blight. This remedy is handed down to the present day.

   

   Tras-scríofa ag duine dár meitheal tras-scríbhneoirí deonacha.

   Stair Athraigh

   Teanga

   Béarla

   Bailitheoir

   Rose A. Gray

   Inscne

   Baineann

   Aois

   12

   Seoladh

   Aghnacliff, Co. Longford

   Faisnéiseoir

   P. Reilly

   Aois

   20

   Seoladh

   Dernaferst, Co. Cavan