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School: An Charraig

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Carrick, Co. Cavan
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    Food in olden times
    They used to eat three meals in the day. The breakfast, the dinner and the tea. The time they used to eat at was at eight o clock and at one and at five.
    The dinner consisted of potatoes and cabbage. The breakfast consisted of bacon and eggs and bread
    The sort of bread they used to eat was Oaten Meal bread. The kind of milk drunk was butter milk.
    They used to have to wash before their breakfast.
    Transcribed by a member of our volunteer transcription project.
    History Edit
    Topics
    1. place-space-environment
      1. land management (~4,110)
    Language
    English
    Collector
    Mary Kate Kearney
    Gender
    Female
    Age
    15
    Address
    Carrick, Co. Cavan