School: Dunlavin (B.)
- Location:
- Dunlavin, Co. Wicklow
- Teacher: Mícheál Ó Gogáin
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0914, Page 067
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- The people in olden times were not as well fed as the people of the present day. The people in olden times could only afford two meals a day one at about ten o clock in the morning and the other at about five o clock in the evening. Then they were obliged to do without any food until ten o clock the next morning which would be a very long fast. Workmen in olden times would be up at six o clock in the morning and have four or five hours' work done before they got their breakfast at ten o clock. The meals usually consisted of porridge and skim or butter milk and griddle bread made out of Indian meal and wheaten meal. The people could only afford potatoes for one meal. The poor people depended on a little goat's milk and it was only the well-to-do people who could(continues on next page)
- Collector
- John O' Toole
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Rathsallagh, Co. Wicklow
- Informant
- Mrs B. Toole
- Gender
- Female
- Age
- 80
- Address
- Dunlavin, Co. Wicklow
