School: Killaraght (roll number 11755)
- Location:
- Killaraght, Co. Sligo
- Teacher: Annie Brennan
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0187, Page 121
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- The people in olden times had not the same sort of food as the people of the present day.The ate three meals a day. In the morning the children ate porridge and buttermilk and the older people would have new-milk. For the dinner they would have potatoes and buttermilk. They would have a basket on the pot and they would sit on the floor around the basket of potatoes. The old people drank the buttermilk out of square-shaped wooden mugs, called "methers." These mugs had two handles or sometimes four. In the evening they would have porridge.If they were(continues on next page)
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- Teeney Haran
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