School: Termonfeckin
- Location:
- Termonfeckin, Co. Louth
- Teacher: T. Ó Corcoráin
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- (continued from previous page)Long ago the people sat around the table on blocks of wood.
The bread made long ago was oaten meal bread. It was baked on a griddle. Long ago meat was eaten on Sundays only. The vegetable used was cabbage. Tea was first used about sixty years ago. The people could only by an ounce at a time. - Long ago food was very scarce and people lived on three meals a day. These meals were a breakfast, a dinner and a tea. The breakfast was eaten when the men came from work in the morning.
Potatoes were eaten at every meal with butter milk(continues on next page)- Collector
- Mary Duff
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Termonfeckin, Co. Louth
- Informant
- Mrs Cumiskey
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Termonfeckin, Co. Louth