School: Shinrone (B.)
- Location:
- Shinrone, Co. Offaly
- Teacher: William Mac Mahon
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0819, Page 083
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- (continued from previous page)The old road can clearly be traced, but it is overgrown with grass and bushes. The ditches on both sides are there still.
- Long ago people in Ireland ate three meals a day. Their meals consisted of porridge and milk in the morning. about 7.30 a.m. and their dinner was of potatoes, milk and butter about 12 p.m. and oaten bread and milk at 6 p.m.
A good deal of work was done before the breakfast such as fodering [?] milking and feeding cattle and horse's. The table was always brought out in the middle of the floor during meal hours and then pushed in against the wall.
At that time wheaten and oaten bread was eaten(continues on next page) - Collector
- Edward Feehan
- Gender
- Male
- Informant
- John Flannery
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Shinrone, Co. Offaly
