School: Cill a' Lachtáin
- Location:
- Killallaghtan, Co. Galway
- Teacher: Seosamh Ó hAllmhuráin
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- In olden times the people used have only two meals. The breakfast and supper. The peopl used to a lot of work in the morning before eating. For the breakfast they used to have oaten bread and porridge. For supper they'd have potatoes and milk and if they had no milk they'd have porridge. Potatoes were eaten at one meal. If the people had milk plenty they'd drink a good deal of it. They used to get milk from the cow, any person that had one. In olden times it was very few that had a table in the kitchen. Only when the potatoes were boiled they would be spilt into a skib(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Kitty Kilgannon
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Cartron, Co. Galway
- Informant
- Mrs Kilgannon
- Relation
- Parent
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Cartron, Co. Galway