School: Faythe (roll number 11361)
- Teacher: An tSr. Columcille
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0882, Page 122
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- About sixty years ago the people always used food which they made themselves. They got up at cock - crow in the morning and the men went out on the land to work and the women lit big fires and made pots of porridge and when it was ready if the men were very busy they brought it out to them if not they came in. The porridge was usually made of oaten-meal and they sometimes put a lump of butter in the middle of it. Some of them drank milk with it. The pots they boiled it in were large round deep with little legs and they hung this from an hook.
- Collector
- May Murphy
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Faythe, Co. Wexford
