School: Cill Cruim / Killocrim (roll number 17072)

Location:
Killacrim, Co. Kerry
Teacher:
Micheál Óg Ó Catháin
Browse
The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0407D, Page 06_009

Archival Reference

The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0407D, Page 06_009

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: Cill Cruim / Killocrim
  2. XML Page 06_009
  3. 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

  1. The food in olden times was potatoes and salt. They in a few other years they used have pake, and sourmilk and the people used to live longer in olden times. The table used to be longside the wall only if there was a big family and then it would be in the middle of the floor. In a few other years they used have yellow gruel and sourmilk for every meal, for brearfast dinner and supper and before going to bed.
    Transcribed by a member of our volunteer transcription project.
    Language
    English
    Collector
    A. De Stac
    Gender
    Unknown
    Informant
    Jim Stack
    Gender
    Male
    Address
    Killacrim, Co. Kerry