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School: Carnamoyle (roll number 7344)

Location:
Carnamoyle, Co. Donegal
Teacher:
Hugh McKee Fleck
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  1. Food in Olden Times

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    In olden times people had three meals in the day, breakfast dinner and supper. The breakfast was eaten at nine oclock and they got their dinner at two oclock and they got their supper at eight oclock.
    The people worked form six oclock in the morning till nine without food. The breakfast consisted of oatbread and sweet-milk. The dinner was potatoes and groats, that is, a kind of broth made with fine oatmeal. the supper consisted of oaten-porridge and butter-milk.
    The people sat round the table in the middle of
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    History Edit
    Topics
    1. products
      1. food products (~3,601)
    Language
    English
    Collector
    Patrick Redden
    Gender
    Male
    Address
    Carnamoyle, Co. Donegal
    Informant
    John Redden
    Gender
    Male
    Address
    Carnamoyle, Co. Donegal