School: Drumlaney
- Location:
- Castlesaunderson Demesne, Co. Cavan
- Teacher: Mrs Fahey
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 1025, Page 022
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- The usual number of meals was three a day. Tea was used in the houses of the wealthier once a day.
Oaten and Indian porridge, potatoes, home-cured bacon, eggs, cabbage, potatoes, turnips and buttermilk were the usual commodities.
Dinner was the principal meal. The potatoes were put in a home--made basket left on a pot in the middle of the floor. Each one had a porringer of buttermilk. Each one peeled his potatoes with the nail of him thumb, which was grown long for this special purpose. Salt was left on a dish in the middle of the potatoes and each one dipped his potatoe in the salt.
The breakfast was similarly dished up but the porridge was poured on to a dish and left on the centre of the table. This table(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Annie Mc Inerney
- Gender
- Female
- Age
- 14
- Address
- Leggykelly, Co. Cavan
- Informant
- Mary K. Tighe
- Gender
- Female
- Age
- 15
- Address
- Rahultan, Co. Cavan
