School: Díseart, Droichead Átha (roll number 1434)
- Location:
- Dysart, Co. Louth
- Teacher: M. Ní Ailpín
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- At nine o'clock in the morning a pot of porridge went out to the field and a can of buttermilk.
At half six at night they stopped work and they got potatoes and salt again or sometimes a bit of oaten bread.
On Christmas Day and Easter Sunday they got tea and boiled meat and on Good Friday Black Tea. The vegetables used were turnips onions and cabbage.
On Shrove Tuesday pancakes were made. On Hollantide night colcannon was eaten. Noggins were made before cups. No one remembers tea when tea was first used.(continues on next page)