School: Knocktopher (roll number 7033)
- Location:
- Doire na hInse, Co. Chill Chainnigh
- Teacher: Séamus Mac Éil
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0848, Page 174
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- The people in the olden times ate two or three meals a day. The meals were breakfast, dinner, and supper. The worked in the mornings before their breaktast.
The used to eat oaten meal porridge for their breakfasts and potatoes and salt for dinner. Buttermilk was drunk at dinner time. The table was placed against the wall after every meal.
Oaten bread and wholemeal bread, ling fish and salted herrings were eaten for dinner sometimes.
The people did not eat after twelve o'clock at night.
There was no special food eaten on special occasion. Before cups or mugs became common tin pints were used for drinking out of.
- Collector
- Lily Tuohy
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Cnoc an Tóchair, Co. Chill Chainnigh
- Informant
- Mrs Tuohy
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Cnoc an Tóchair, Co. Chill Chainnigh
