School: Killymarley (roll number 15398)
- Location:
- Killymarly, Co. Monaghan
- Teacher: Bean Uí Chléirigh
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0957, Page 277
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- About seventy years ago in this district the people had four meals in the day. They got up early in the morning and went out and worked for a couple of hours before breakfast, Their breakfast was oaten porridge and buttermilk when there were no potatoes. When the new potatoes came they were a great treat and were eaten instead of porridge in the morning. When dinner time came they would have beans, cabbage and potatoes. Beef was cheap and in the winter time soup was made two or three times a week. They always put dumplings made of oatmeal and flour or of potatoes in the soup.When the men came in from work in the fields at night they got their "piece". This consisted of a farl of oaten bread well-buttered and a mug of sweet milk. For supper they had either porridge and butter or potatoes and butter. In most farmhouses corn was taken to the mill and made into meal three times in the year. It was stored away carefully during the summer and made to last till the new season's came again.The people did not sit around the table in country houses at meal times. The potatoes were emptied into a potato basket. This was placed(continues on next page)
