School: Tulach Bán (roll number 11322)
- Location:
- Tullywana, Co. Leitrim
- Teacher: Proinnsias Ó Gormfhlaith
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- Long ago in olden times the people used to eat three meals a day. In the morning they would have nothing to eat until they would have their work done. Then they would have porrage and buttermilk. At dinner time they would have a few potatoes and a drop of buttermilk. In some houses they had a table on the middle of the floor and all the people in the house would sit around the table. In smaller houses there was a long narrow table that could be put up when they did not want it and they could let it down.
- Collector
- Francis Gildea
- Gender
- Male
- Informant
- John Leonard
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 68
Food in Olden Times
“In the olden times the people only ate one meal a day.”
In the olden times the people only ate one meal a day. These were the morning meal and the evening meal. The evening meal consisted of oat-meal cake and tea. They rose each morning about five o'clock. They went to work then and took the breakfast at nine o'clock. - Collector
- Francis Gildea
- Gender
- Male
- Informant
- Thomas Gallagher
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 67