School: Kilmessan (B.) (roll number 4210)
- Location:
- Kilmessan, Co. Meath
- Teacher: Brian S. Pléimeann
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0691, Page 191
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- The food that people generally used long ago was oaten meal porridge. They used to eat it two or three times a day. They ate it at their breakfast and at their supper and sometimes at their dinner. They used to kill their own pigs and have plenty of bacon. They ate a lot of cabbage and bacon and potatoes.
They used to make their own bread from wheat and oat. They drank a lot of buttermilk on Christmas Day and New Years Day and Easter Sunday they used to eat beef and mutton.
- Collector
- Noel O' Brien
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Kilmessan, Co. Meath
- Informant
- Christopher Reid
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Kilmessan, Co. Meath
- The people of long age did not eat as much as the people do now. During the harvest time they got up at six o'clock(continues on next page)
