School: Grange (roll number 3759)

Location:
Grange, Co. Sligo
Teacher:
Tomás de Búrca
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  1. Food in olden times. 20-10-1938
    In olden times the people ate three meals in the day, namely, their breakfast, dinner, and supper.
    Their breakfast consisted of potatoes, butter, eggs, and buttermilk. The people at that time used to work at six o'clock in the morning and came home at nine o'clock A M to their breakfast.
    After breakfast the people went to whatever work they had to do, and come home again to their dinner at two o'clock p.m.
    They went back again
    (continues on next page)
    Transcribed by a member of our volunteer transcription project.
    Topics
    1. products
      1. food products (~3,601)
    Language
    English
    Collector
    Kathleen Kilfeather
    Gender
    Female
    Address
    Grange, Co. Sligo
    Informant
    Mrs Ellen O Connor
    Gender
    Female
    Age
    75
    Address
    Grange, Co. Sligo