School: Drom an Eargail, Áth Treasna (roll number 10361)
- Location:
- Dromanarrigle, Co. Cork
- Teacher: Domhnall Ó Caoimh
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0355, Page 272
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- Meals People used to eat three meals in the day namely, Breakfast, dinner and supper.
Potatoes were the chief food for mostly every meal, people used to work before having breakfast in the morning. The table used to beside the wall but of former times, there of former times, there was a table which was pulled in and out of the wall, bread was made from yellow meal but in the famine period, they had rye bread.
Meat was not eaten often, but when it was eaten, it was salted, there was no fresh meat eaten.
People ate very late long ago. People ate very late long ago had certain food for special feast days. The food they used to eat on November night was pan cakes, and nuts, and lots of other things.
Mugs were used for to serve as cups, and a wooden dish for a saucer. The mode of food and(continues on next page)
