People Didn’t Have Much Food

People didn’t have much food long ago. They ate oaten bread and had no tea or sugar. For dinner people ate potatoes with milk and in the evening for supper they would have porridge. ‘All the old people were a lot healthier than this present generation’.

Kiltullagh, Co. Galway

Collector: Eileen Keogh, Killarriv, Co. Galway

Informant: Mary Connors, Killarriv, Co. Galway

Duchas, ‘The Schools’ Collection’, www.duchas.ie