School: Virginia (B)
- Location:
- Virginia, Co. Cavan
- Teacher: E. O' Reilly
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 1000, Page 201
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- (continued from previous page)a fish and other times melted butter. The people used to eat early at night because they used to go to bed early.
- Potatoes were not eaten at every meal. Instead of tea they drank milk both buttermilk and sweet milk. Long ago the people sat round the basket with noggins in their hands full of butter. They ate the potatoes with the noggin of butter. Fish was unusual and they never bought it. The caught the fish in the river themselves.
- People in olden times ate no meat unless at Christmas(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Paddy Burns
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Billis, Co. Cavan
- Informant
- Matty Burns
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Billis, Co. Cavan
