School: Coillte Críotáin
- Location:
- Erris, Co. Roscommon
- Teacher: Nóra Nic Aodhgáin
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0236, Page 410
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- (continued from previous page)nuts and apples on Hollow E'en. Tea was common in 1878. In olden times there were no cups only noggins or wooden vessels.
- 5. The people of olden times used to eat one meal a day and that was at three o'clock in the afternoon and it consisted of potatoes and butter milk and sometimes oatmeal bread. It was from wooden mugs they drunk and they baked the bread on a griddle. The table was left on the middle of the floor.
- Collector
- Martin Brennan
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Copse, Co. Roscommon
