School: Tierlahood
- Location:
- Tirlahode Lower, Co. Cavan
- Teacher: M. Ní Bhrionáin
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0981, Page 237
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- Three meals what they had in Tierlahood in olden times-potatoes and porridge in the morning, potatoes and butter-milk for dinner and again potatoes and salt for supper.
They drank "Sounds" which was made as follows: - a handful of oatmeal steeped in water for 24 hours - then the liquid is like milk, This they drank seated around a "Losset" on the middle of the floor with a tin of salt in the centre of the potatoes. They drank from a wooden vessel with one handle which was called a "noggin" and which is still to be seen scrubbed white on the dressers of some of the local farm-houses close to the school.
- Collector
- Jack Smith
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Tirlahode Lower, Co. Cavan
- Informant
- Peter Brady
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Tirlahode Lower, Co. Cavan
