School: Donore (roll number 6668)
- Location:
- Donore, Co. Meath
- Teacher: Maighréad Nic Eóin
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0682, Page 115
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- Food in Olden TimesThe people long ago ate plain healthy food, potatoes, oaten bread, and striabout. Their tables were hung on the walls. In the morning people did work on the farm before eating any food. They used to make bread of oaten meal without any flour being mixed with it. It was baked on a griddle over the fire.Paddy Carry (Scoláire)Got from - Mrs Kevitt (aged 62)
Oldbridge, Drogheda
- Food in Olden TimesIn olden times the people had only three meals each day, breakfast, dinner and supper. They made the porridge from Indian meal and they made wheaten bread and oaten meal bread which they baked in a griddle before the fire. Frances O'Toole (Scoláire)The above was told by Thomas Murray (aged about 60), Donore, Drogheda.
- Collector
- Frances O' Toole
- Gender
- Female
- Informant
- Thomas Murray
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 60
- Address
- Donore, Co. Meath
