School: Dún Béicín (roll number 14822)
- Location:
- Doonbeakin, Co. Sligo
- Teacher: Máire Nic Giolla Geanainn
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- In the olden times people used to eat only two meals a day, the breakfast and the supper.
Potatoes and milk they used to have for the supper and oat-meal cakes for breakfast.
The people used to do a good deal of work before they used to eat their breakfast. They used to (eat) go out working about six o'clock in the morning and come in about nine for their breakfast.
Potatoes were not eaten at every meal. Goats milk was the milk people usually drunk in the olden times.
People in the olden times had no table. They used to leave a pot on the floor and leave a basket of potatoes on top of(continues on next page)- Collector
- Rita Connor
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Doonbeakin, Co. Sligo
- Informant
- Mrs J. Connor
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Crowagh or Dunneill Mountain, Co. Sligo