School: Cor Dubh (roll number 13806)
- Location:
- Corduff, Co. Monaghan
- Teacher: Mrs Flood
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0934, Page 085
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- The people long ago had three meals a day. The meals were mostly potatoes sweet milk and porridge. They worked in the mornings fasting. Then they got their breakfast and they worked hard till dinner time. They worked again then till near night. They got oaten bread and sweet milk instead of tea. At dinner time they turned the pot of potatoes into a basket, and they sat round eating.It is about one hundred years since tea was first used. At Hallows Eve the people made champ, and they left some of it on the table for the dead who were supposed to get out on the night to visit theit homes.
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- Peter Marron
- Gender
- Male
