School: Clongeen (roll number 4652)
- Location:
- Clongeen, Co. Wexford
- Teacher: Brian Ó Broin
Archival Reference
The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0882, Page 320
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- In olden times people worked for an our or two before they ate their breakfast. For this meal they got cutlen stirabout boiled the night before and made so thickly that they used to cut it in slices with a knife.
They usually drank buttermilk or skimmed milk with the stirabout out of noggins and ate the stirabout off platters which were made by coopers or local craftsmen.
Long ago when tables were not in use they were made so that they could be used for a seat also.
For dinner people usually had potatoes and fish.
Fish was eaten more, long ago than now as also were vegetables.
Tea is not so very long in use in this district. When it came into use at first people did not know how to use it.
Sometimes they would put a bag of tea on the teapot.(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Ita Whelan
- Gender
- Female
- Informant
- Mrs A. E. Whelan
- Gender
- Female
