School: Tuar Árd, Áth Treasna (roll number 8893)
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- Toorard, Co. Cork
- Teacher: Éamonn Ó Domhnaill
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- In olden times people had three meals a day the same as we have nowadays, breakfast, dinner and supper. Some people ate the breakfast about eight o'clock, after doing a lot of work such as milking cows, feeding pigs and hens and horses and some cut hay before eating the breakfast. Other people ate the breakfast at about five o(r six) o'clock and then worked, this was done all year around. For breakfast the poor people had potatoes with thick skim milk others had yellow meal porridge and milk. This was eaten out of bowls or basins with a piece of wood shaped like a spoon. Sometimes they put the pot of porridge on the floor and they all gathered around it to eat it. The well-to-do people and their children had boiled oaten meal porridge or potatoes. The dinner consisted of potatoes and milk with sometimes(continues on next page)