School: Owning Convent (roll number 16430)
- Location:
- Ónainn, Co. Chill Chainnigh
- Teacher: Sr. M. Bernadette
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- In olden times people had three meals every day, breakfast, dinner, and supper. Breakfast was eaten in the morning, dinner at midday and supper in the night. Before breakfast people worked for about two hours. Breakfast consisted of potatoes and sour milk; dinner of porridge and sour milk; and supper of potatoes and brown bread.
The table was placed in the centre of the floor and the people sat round it when they partook of meals. In the kitchen there was a table which, when meals were eaten, could be hung up by the wall. It was called a settle.
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- Collector
- Annie Suttie
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- An tSeanchathair, Co. Chill Chainnigh
- Informant
- Mr John Suttie
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 57
- Address
- An tSeanchathair, Co. Chill Chainnigh
