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School: Little Island (Inse Ratha) (roll number 12026)

Location:
Little Island, Co. Cork
Teacher:
Tadhg Ó Deasúna
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0384, Page 026

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    Three meals a day - breakfast at eight o'clock, dinner at one o'clock, supper at six o'clock. Work two hour before breakfast. Bread, and tea for breakfast. Potatoes salt meat cabbage and sour milk for dinner. The table was always kept in the middle of the floor. Oneway bread was eaten. Wheat was bought, and crushed in Gleannmore near Knockraha. A lot of vegetables were eaten. At Easter they had as many eggs as they could eat for breakfast, fresh meat for dinner and currant cake for supper. Flat mugs were used for drinking before cups came in use.
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    History Edit
    Topics
    1. products
      1. food products (~3,601)
    Language
    English
    Collector
    Timothy Sheehan
    Gender
    Male
    Address
    Little Island, Co. Cork
    Informant
    Mrs H. Sheehan
    Gender
    Female
    Age
    84
    Address
    Little Island, Co. Cork