School: Alt Achadh Doire (roll number 15474)
- Location:
- Altaghaderry, Co. Donegal
- Teacher: Pádraig L. Mac Diarmada
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- They ate three meals in one day, their breakfast, their dinner and their supper. For their breakfast they got oat bread and milk. At Christmas they killed a beast and at Easter also. They ate potatoes for their dinner and they took porridge before they went to bed. The bread was harned on a griddle. They ate fish three times a week and they ate all sorts of vegetables.
- Collector
- Kathleen Mc Cool
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Garshooey, Co. Donegal
- Informant
- Andrew Mc Cool
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Garshooey, Co. Donegal
- People ate three meals a day in olden times. The meals were:- their breakfast, their dinner and their supper. They ate breakfast at half five in the morning, their(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Nellie Mc Hugh
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Altaghaderry, Co. Donegal
- Informant
- James Mc Hugh
- Gender
- Male