School: Ballyragget Convent
- Location:
- Ballyragget, Co. Kilkenny
- Teacher: -
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- In olden times people ate two meals a day and sometimes three. These meals were breakfast and dinner. Breakfast was eaten in the morning They worked about three hours before they eat it. The dinner was eaten in the evening.
Yellow-meal porridge and milk were eaten at the breakfast, and the supper consisted of potatoes and buttermilk. The table was placed next the wall and after the meal it was hung up and was called a hanging table Potatoes were eaten out of a basket which was put on the floor near the fire.
Oatenmeal bread and potato-bread were eaten, the bread being baked on a griddle. Meat was seldom eaten and herrings and ling were generally used during Lent.
Tea was first brought into the district by a priest. The housekeeper gave him the tea-leaves(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Nellie Ivory
- Gender
- Female
- Informant
- Mrs Ivory
- Gender
- Female
- Age
- 55
- Address
- Ballyconra, Co. Kilkenny
