School: Mín Riabhach (roll number 17050)
- Location:
- Meenreagh, Co. Donegal
- Teacher: Anton Ó Domhnaill
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 1097, Page 72
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- The old people used to eat three meals every day. These meals were their breakfast their dinner and their supper. They ate these meals in the morning at dinner-time and at night. The people used to work in the morning before breakfast. They ate potatoes and butter-milk to their breakfast. They ate oat-bread and sweet-milk to their dinner, and they ate potatoes to their supper. The people used to drink their milk. Long ago the people had no tables they ate their food from the bottom of baskets. They used to eat bred made from oat-meal. They also used to draw blood from the cattle and leave it until it got hard, then they cut it and ate it also.
The people used to eat fish long ago but they ate no vegetable because they had none. They did not eat after six o' clock.(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Kathleen Gallen
- Gender
- Female
- Informant
- George Gallen
- Gender
- Male
