School: Kilmurry
- Location:
- Kilmurry, Co. Offaly
- Teacher: Annraoi de Búrca
Archival Reference
The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0802, Page 146
Image and data © National Folklore Collection, UCD.
See copyright details.
DownloadOpen data
Available under Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)
- XML School: Kilmurry
- XML Page 146
- XML “Food in Olden Times”
- XML “Food in Olden Times”
- XML “Food in Olden Times”
Note: We will soon deprecate our XML Application Programming Interface and a new, comprehensive JSON API will be made available. Keep an eye on our website for further details.
On this page
- (continued from previous page)the present time. The people used to eat fresh meat and salt meat. They used to get meat from other countries. Bacon was generally used in the olden times.
- Transcription guide » You are not logged in, but you are welcome to contribute a transcription anonymously. In this case, your IP address will be stored in the interest of quality control.By clicking the save button you agree that your contribution will be available under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License and that a link to dúchas.ie is sufficient as attribution.
- Collector
- Kathleen Coyne
- Gender
- Female
- Age
- 12
- Address
- Derrygrogan Little, Co. Offaly
- Informant
- Joseph Gorman
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 74
- Address
- Derrygrogan Little, Co. Offaly
- The was no vegetable used in olden times. The food that was in olden times was gruel made of water and oaten meal. oaten bread and wheaten bread was also used. You would get a mouthful of tea at(continues on next page)
