School: Kilmaganny, Thomastown
- Location:
- Cill Mogeanna, Co. Chill Chainnigh
- Teacher: C. Ó Hurdail
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0852, Page 330
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- (continued from previous page)floor when the people were eating their meals but when not being used, it was placed by the wall.
- The people had four meals a day long ago. In the morning, they had porridge & sour-milk, at mid-day, potatoes & sour-milk, in the evening, oaten-bread & sour-milk & at night, potatoes & sour-milk. Sometimes, fish & vegetables were used.
Christmas Day & Easter Sunday were the only days people had meat & tea. Pints were the common vessels in olden times. - Three meals, breakfast, dinner & supper. For breakfast, they had bran-bread, butter and milk; for dinner, they had potatoes, sour milk & salt meat & for their supper, beforre they went to bed, they had stirabout with sour milk on it.
- Collector
- Michael Hearne
- Gender
- Male
- Three meals - stirabout for breakfast & supper & potatoes for dinner.
The bread they used was oat-meal bread. When being made, it was wet with water. Fish was eaten.
Pints were used before cups.
