School: The Downs (roll number 8875)
- Location:
- Na Dúnta, Co. na hIarmhí
- Teacher: S. Molloy
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0730, Page 213
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- Food in olden times.
Long ago there was no kind of food out like what the people now eat.
There was no tea to be had like what is sold now.
The tea they had long ago were hayseeds which they saved every year from their meadow or grass, these they use to store away in boxes for a year.
By the end of that time the hayseeds are as brown as the tea we buy.
Then they would it into a drink like the way we make our tea but in very different vessels towards the ones no. This they would drink every day.
Porrage was their usual diet every day, at morning for their breakfast and for their supper.
Long ago before their breakfast the people would work for two hours before starting to eat.
People say now that the people of long ago were the healthiest people that ever lived.
They would arise every morning at six o'clock and they would work two hours before starting to eat.(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Annie Cleary
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Na Dúnta, Co. na hIarmhí
- Informant
- Patrick Cleary
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 60
- Address
- Na Dúnta, Co. na hIarmhí
