School: Moynalty (C.)
- Location:
- Moynalty, Co. Meath
- Teacher: (name not given)
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0706, Page 084
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- The greater part of the people ate potatoes at their meals. In the morning the poorer people had Indian Porridge. The richer people had oaten-meal porridge bread and butter and they drank butter-milk out of a nogin.
All the people had wheat. The rich people kept it but the poor people sold it to pay rent to the landlords.
People used to eat three meals a day. At the second meal they ate potatoes and salt and sometimes butter. They sat around a basket on a pot of hot water and the steam of the water kept the potatoes warm.
They sat round the basket and peeled the potatoes and put salt on them and ate them. On Sunday's they ate bacon. They ate fresh meat once a year on Christmas Day.
In the evening they ate potatoes and sometimes cabbage.(continues on next page)
- Informant
- Thomas Govern
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Donore, Co. Meath
- Informant
- Thomas Smyth
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Ballintlieve, Co. Meath
