School: Belturbet (B)
- Location:
- Belturbet, Co. Cavan
- Teacher: S. Mc Govern
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- My forefathers ate three meals every breakfast, dinner and supper. They worked about two hours before they got their breakfast. For their breakfast they took oat-cake and milk and for their dinner they took potatoes and for supper they took porridge and butter-milk. They used to make oat-cake and wheat-cake at that time. They fished a lot and caught many bream which they kept for the fast days during the year. They loved boxty, colcannon and potato-cake.
- My forefathers used to eat four meals a day and before their breakfast they used to work about the house. Then when they would come in the women would have their breakfast prepared on a table. Then they would go out and come in about two o clock and eat their dinner and about six o clock they would get their tea. The food they used to get was, soda bread, brown bread, sowens, gruel, potatoes, cabbage(continues on next page)
