School: Duncormick
- Location:
- Duncormick, Co. Wexford
- Teacher: P. S. Ó hEachthigheirn
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- Food in Olden Times. .19 - 10 - '38Long ago people ate two meals a day. These meals were breakfast and supper.
The breakfast was eaten at nine o'clock in the morning and the supper at seven in the evening,
The people used to work every morning before breakfast.
The workmen got their breakfast out on the headland in the field every morning
At Roches, Levitstown, and other places, oaten stirabout was brought out in the field in a keeler for the breakfast.
When the men came in at night they got potatoes, salt, and buttermilk for their supper.
Buttermilk was the only milk that was used.
On Easter Sunday morning people wanted to see who would eat most eggs.
Alice Walshe
Saltbridge
Duncormick,
Co Wexford.
- Collector
- Alice Walshe
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Salt Bridge, Co. Wexford
