School: Monksland (C.) (roll number 2792)
- Location:
- Monksland, Co. Louth
- Teacher: M. Nic Oireachtaigh
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0659, Page 361
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- Long-ago people did not get as many meals a day as they do now. They always went out to work in the morning before they got their breakfast.
Potatoes were used at every meal, except at breakfast. Milk was also drunk.
The table would be in the centre of the floor. The table was never hung up when not in use.
Wheaten bread and oat-meal bread were the only kinds of bread used. Sometimes meat was used and also vegetables. At night people would have a big pot of porridge and they would eat all that, sometimes with nothing but butter-milk.
The meal that the people liked best was potatoes and salt-herrings.
On Easter Sunday people would go way to some hill and make a fire there, and boil a lot of eggs.
Nobody knows when tea was used first, but the people drank it out of bowls. Many people in Ireland(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Josephine Rogan
- Gender
- Female
- Age
- 13
- Address
- Monksland, Co. Louth
