1. dúchas.ie
  2. The Schools' Collection
  3. Ballyjamesduff Convent

School: Ballyjamesduff Convent

Location:
Ballyjamesduff, Co. Cavan
Teacher:
Sr. Mary Theresa
Browse
Mode:
The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0997, Page 117

Archival Reference

The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0997, Page 117

Image and data © National Folklore Collection, UCD.

See copyright details.

Download

Open data

Available under Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)

  1. XML School: Ballyjamesduff Convent
  2. XML Page 117
  3. XML “The Care of The Farm Animals”
  4. 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

  2. Food In Olden Times

    Share Share Post
    The food of our forefathers was neither very palatable nor very varied. For a long period the potato was the staple food and when it failed Indian corn, or "yellow meal" as it was more commonly called as well as oaten meal was substituted. But the potato returned to favour again, and was eaten with buttermilk, salted fish or lard. They could not afford to buy meat.
    (continues on next page)
    Transcribed by a member of our volunteer transcription project.
    History Edit
    Topics
    1. products
      1. food products (~3,601)
    Language
    English
    Collector
    Kathleen Coyle
    Gender
    Female
    Address
    Ballyjamesduff, Co. Cavan
    Informant
    Thomas Byers
    Gender
    Male
    Age
    60
    Address
    Ballyjamesduff, Co. Cavan