Lunch

As well as their morning and evening meals some people used to have a lunch or ‘rúissín’ – this was had at about 6 o’clock and the supper at 8. For supper, they used to have milk and porridge or sometimes potatoes and salt.

Cappataggle, Co. Galway

Collector: Nora Lohan, Mail Road, Cappataggle

Informant: Mrs McLoughlin, Mail Road, Cappataggle

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