School: An Cnoc (B.) (roll number 16122)
- Location:
- Knock, Co. Mayo
- Teacher: Tomás Ó Riain
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- In the olden times food was different than it is now. There were three meals eaten a day. The breakfast, dinner, and the supper. They used to have potatoes for the breakfast, and a sauspan of butter-milk. For the dinner oat-cakes or potato cakes and a drink of black-tea, and for supper poridge and new milk. They used to have three kinds of bread oat-meal bread, yellow-meal bread, and boxty bread. They did not eat much meat. It was fish they mostly eat. In the olden(continues on next page)
- Collector
- James O' Connell
- Gender
- Male
- Informant
- William Rachford
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 45
- Address
- Cloonturnaun, Co. Mayo