School: Coillíní Carrowkelly (roll number 7054)
- Location:
- Culleens, Co. Mayo
- Teacher: M. Ó Brádaigh
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0146, Page 84
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- Food in Olden Times1. Locally
2. Carrowkelly
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9.The people used to eat three meals in the day. They were the breakfast, dinner and supper.
People used to work for an hour and a half before breakfast. The meals consisted of potatoes in the morning and evening and porridge at dinner hour as well as buttermilk.When they were eating the table was placed in the middle of the floor and the people sat on either sides.
On some days they used to eat bread [or wheat]. It was something rye bread or wheat bread or oaten bread and sometimes white bread.Meat cost three pence per lb but still it was only eaten on Sunday and tea was also used on this day(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Mary A. Harrison
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Carrowkelly, Co. Mayo
