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School: Dún Béicín (roll number 14822)

Location:
Doonbeakin, Co. Sligo
Teacher:
Máire Nic Giolla Geanainn
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0167, Page 0719

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  1. Food in Olden Times

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    In the olden times people used to eat only two meals a day, the breakfast and the supper.
    Potatoes and milk they used to have for the supper and oat-meal cakes for breakfast.
    The people used to do a good deal of work before they used to eat their breakfast. They used to (eat) go out working about six o'clock in the morning and come in about nine for their breakfast.
    Potatoes were not eaten at every meal. Goats milk was the milk people usually drunk in the olden times.
    People in the olden times had no table. They used to leave a pot on the floor and leave a basket of potatoes on top of
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    History Edit
    Topics
    1. products
      1. food products (~3,601)
    Language
    English
    Collector
    Rita Connor
    Gender
    Female
    Address
    Doonbeakin, Co. Sligo
    Informant
    Mrs J. Connor
    Gender
    Female
    Address
    Crowagh or Dunneill Mountain, Co. Sligo