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School: Drumacruttan (roll number 10282)

Location:
Drumacruttan, Co. Monaghan
Teacher:
Rreard A. Maclyam
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0958, Page 232

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  2. Food in Olden Times

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    Long ago the people did not eat as often as they do now. They only ate three times a day. They took their breakfast in the morning about eight o'clock. They took their dinner at one o'clock and their supper at nine o'clock at night. At that time the people got up very early in the morning about five o'clock to do a big churn of milk and the would not eat a bite till they would do two or three hours work the people at that time always took porridge for their breakfast in the morning and tea and oaten bread and butter after it. It was a usual thing at that time for
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    History Edit
    Topics
    1. products
      1. food products (~3,601)
    Language
    English
    Collector
    Evelyn Pollock
    Gender
    Female
    Address
    Feragh, Co. Monaghan
    Informant
    Mr John Pollock
    Gender
    Male
    Age
    55
    Address
    Feragh, Co. Monaghan