School: Kilmaganny, Thomastown
- Location:
- Cill Mogeanna, Co. Chill Chainnigh
- Teacher: C. Ó Hurdail
Archival Reference
The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0852, Page 331
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: Kilmaganny, Thomastown
- XML Page 331
- 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
- People used to eat stirabout in the morning, potatoes with buttermilk & salt herring for dinner & sour milk, potatoes & onions for supper. Oaten bread was eaten.
Mugs were used, but not much tea in them.
- Collector
- John Forde
- Gender
- Male
- The old mowers used to have their breakfast about eight after being mowing since about six, or perhaps five.
Stirabout & potatoes were mostly used & sometimes they ate meat, mostly bacon. Stirabout was used twice a day. Fish & vegitables were also used.
Oatmeal & wholemeal breads were eaten. Soda & salt were used for both. Water was used for the oatmeal bread & thick milk for the wholemeals
Pancakes were used on Shrove Tuesday night & colcannon on November Night i.e 31st October.
Pints & mugs were used in olden times. - People lived on two meals a day. One was eaten at nine o'clock in the morning & the other at six in the evening. About three hours' work was done before breakfast. The food consisted of oaten-bread, skimmed milk & potatoes, which were used at almost every meal.
The table was long. One end was fixed to(continues on next page)
