School: Lorrha (C.) (roll number 601)
- Location:
- Lorrha, Co. Tipperary
- Teacher: Gertrude M. Lee
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0530, Page 149
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- Food in Olden TimesIn olden times people had only two meals a day, while poor people had only one. People often worked until 12 o'c without having any food. Potatoes and turnips were the chief meals people had in olden times. Buttermilk was the only milk drunk. Wheaten bread was the bread eaten. There was no meat eaten as people had to sell the pigs to pay the rent. People used to eat nothing only a piece of bread made on water, on Good Friday and Ash Wednesday and they drank black tea.
A vessel called a noggen made of wood was used as a cup in those old days.
- Collector
- Joan Killeen
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Abbeville, Co. Tipperary
