School: Derries (roll number 11388)
- Location:
- Derries, Co. Donegal
- Teacher: Meadhbh Bean Uí Chiaráin
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 1033, Page 034
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- (continued from previous page)Butter and milk. On special days which tea was the old people would all go together about 10 or 12 of them and get what tea would do them for that day. Meals were eaten three times each day. Breakfast, dinner and supper. The breakfast was oat bread and milk. The dinner was of potatoes, salt and also milk fish was also eaten. On feast days such as Easter and Christmas beef was eaten. The supper was oat porridge. The table was placed in the middle of the floor and the people sat around it. The people did not eat late at night and they always did some work in the morning before eating. The vessels which were used, before cups were made of wood they were bigger than cups.(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Margaret Duncan
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Legnanornoge, Co. Donegal
- Informant
- Mr W. Duncan
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Legnanornoge, Co. Donegal
