School: Duncormick
- Location:
- Duncormick, Co. Wexford
- Teacher: P. S. Ó hEachthigheirn
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- Food in the olden Times.Three meals a day were eaten in the olden times.
The three meals were breakfast, dinner and supper.
Breakfast was eaten at half-seven o'clock, dinner at 12 and supper at eight.
Servants boys and girls were up at half-three and worked until breakfast hour.
Breakfast consisted of cuttlan porridge, dinner consisted of potatoes and herrings and supper consisted of potatoes and salt and "last years" butter-milk.
People sat around the table near a wall.
Barley bread was eaten and it was baked on the hearth against the fire.
Wooden mugs were used before cups came into use.
About sixty years ago tea was first used in this district.Kathleen Walsh
Gibberwell
Duncormick.
- Collector
- Kathleen Walsh
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Gibberwell, Co. Wexford
