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School: Cluain Tuirc (C.)

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Cloonturk, Co. Leitrim
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Máire Ní Gharaidh
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    People ate three meals a day long ago. The breakfast was at 8 o'clock, the dinner at one o'clock and the tea at six o'clock. Several people got up early and had two hours work done before breakfast.
    The breakfast consisted of porridge and buttermilk, the dinner was made up of potatoes salt and buttermilk and the supper of potatoes and sometimes potato cake and a drop of new milk.
    On Sunday and on feast days tea was drunk, butter was put on the bread and veal was eaten at the dinner. At the dinner the table was put in the middle of the floor if the family was large and put in against the wall afterwards.
    Some people killed their own calves and brought the veal out to the market and sold it and kept some for home use.
    Transcribed by a member of our volunteer transcription project.
    History Edit
    Topics
    1. objects
      1. man-made structures
        1. historical and commemorative structures (~6,794)
    Language
    English
    Collector
    Mary Ahern
    Gender
    Female
    Age
    13
    Address
    Gortnalamph, Co. Leitrim
    Informant
    Mrs Ahern
    Relation
    Parent
    Gender
    Female
    Age
    48
    Address
    Gortnalamph, Co. Leitrim