School: Kilmactranny (roll number 6385)
- Location:
- Kilmactranny, Co. Sligo
- Teacher: Cáit, Bean Uí Chasmháin
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0182, Page 037
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- The people used to have two meals a day in olden times.
The meals they used to have were breakfast and dinner.
The breakfast used to be eaten at eight o clock in the morning and the dinner at four o clock in the evening.
The people used to work before breakfast in the morning.
The people used to have oat - meal porridge for the breakfast and for dinner they had potatoes and milk.
Potatoes were not eaten at every meal.
The people used to drink butter milk.
They did not eat off a table, but they ate off a stool in the corner.
The bread that they ate was oaten bread.
It was made from oat - meal.
Meat was not used often.
The meat that they used was the flesh of cattle, such as calves.
The people never ate late at night.
They used to have apples, nuts and barn(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Mary Jermyn
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Knockadrehid, Co. Roscommon
- Informant
- Mrs Mullaney
- Gender
- Female
- Age
- 74
- Address
- Knockadrehid, Co. Roscommon
