School: Alt Achadh Doire (roll number 15474)
- Location:
- Altaghaderry, Co. Donegal
- Teacher: Pádraig L. Mac Diarmada
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- (continued from previous page)dinner at half one and their supper at nine o'clock at night. In olden times the people got up at half four in the morning and went out and done some work. When they came in again they ate their breakfast. They ate for their breakfast potatoes, for their dinner they took porridge and buttermilk. I don't know what they got for their supper.
In olden times before tea became common potatoes were eaten at every meal. Both sweet milk and buttermilk were drank. There was no flour so the people ate oat bread. When it was baked it was put on a griddle in front of the fire to ham.
Fish was eaten but vegetables were not plentiful then. They got tea at Christmas. I don't know what was used before tea became common.
- Collector
- Nellie Mc Hugh
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Altaghaderry, Co. Donegal
- Informant
- James Mc Hugh
- Gender
- Male
