School: Kilmaganny, Thomastown
- Location:
- Kilmaganny, Co. Kilkenny
- Teacher: C. Ó Hurdail
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0852, Page 329
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- From accounts given, the number of meals eaten, varied as some say two, others three & others four.
- Three meals were eaten in olden times. Meals consisted of stir-about for breakfast & supper & potatoes & sour milk for dinner.
And bread eaten, was brown. Meat was seldom used & any that was, was bacon. As people went to bed early, no meals were taken late. They believed in the saying - "Early to bed &c". - Collector
- Patrick Noonan
- Gender
- Male
- Two meals, breakfast & supper, were all the old people had. They had their breakfast at eleven in the morning & supper at nine at night. They always worked before their breakfast.
Every morning, they had porridge for their breakfast & then, potatoes for their supper. The women used to drink buttermilk about three o'clock. Salt meat & fish were also used.
The table was placed in the middle of the(continues on next page)
