Meat, when available, tended to be scrag end of something or corned beef.
From the telegraph.co.uk
Dig out some Irish music, whack some beef stock, vegetables and a scrag end of mutton into a slow cooker for six hours and serve your resulting stew with soda bread.
From the nzherald.co.nz
A terror track, we were promised, a strip so rock-hard and fast that the ball would leave scorch marks on it and Matt Prior's hands would be pulped like pieces of tenderised scrag-end.