School: Benbawn
- Location:
- Binbane, Co. Cavan
- Teacher: M. Gillespie
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- (continued from previous page)bride should not go home to her father's house for a month after she gets married.
- In olden times there were two or three meals each day. These meals were the breakfast, dinner, and supper. The breakfast was eaten at eight o'clock. The dinner was eaten at one o'clock. The supper was eaten at seven o'clock. The breakfast generally consisted of oat-meal porridge and buttermilk. The dinner consisted of potatoes and buttermilk, and salt. The supper consisted of porridge and buttermilk, or perhaps sweet-milk. Sometimes potatoes were eaten three times a day. People had not many tables long ago. There was generally a basket set in the middle of the floor and everyone sat round it with their porringer of buttermilk in their hand.
There were two kinds of bread, which were oat-meal bread and potato(continues on next page) - Collector
- Minnie Moore
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Leaghin, Co. Cavan
