School: Keelagh
- Location:
- Keelagh, Co. Cavan
- Teacher: Ellen Reilly
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 1025, Page 174
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- Long ago the people ate only three meals a day, their breakfast, their dinner which was about one oclock, and their supper which was about seven oclock
In the summer time when the new potatoes were fit to be eaten, people ate them three times a day, and they ate them every day till about Christmas; then they ate porridge or stirabout for their breakfast, potatoes for their dinner, and porridge again for supper.
When the potatoes were ready for the dinner, the rod basket on which they were teemed was placed on the pot in the middle of the floor, and the family sat down on very small stools, each was handed a noggin of buttermilk and they peeled the potatoes with their thumb nail. They seldom ever ate meat or eggs except at Easter or at Christmas. They never drank tea except on a very special occasion. There was no tea drunk in this district eighty years ago. They seldom ever ate bread and if they did it was oaten bread or potato cake.(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Paul Dowd
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Ardamagh, Co. Cavan
