School: Dillonsbridge (roll number 8501)
- Location:
- Philpotstown, Co. Meath
- Teacher: A.B. Ní Chumhaill
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0687, Page 035
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- Three meals a day were eaten in olden times. These meals were breakfast, dinner, and supper. The meals consist of porridge and butter-milk for their breakfast potatoes and butter-milk for their dinner porridge and butter-milk for their supper. People did work in the morning before eating. Potatoes were eaten at every meal. Milk was drunk this milk was butter-milk. People did sit round the table in the centre of the floor. The table was hung against the wall when not in use. Oaten and wheaten bread in olden times. Meat was not eaten at every meal only at Christmas. Fish was very seldom eaten. People did not eat late at night. Colcannon was eaten on Hallow Eve. Pancakes were eaten on shrove(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Brigid Smyth
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Lismullin, Co. Meath
