School: Tullaghanstown (roll number 9605)
- Location:
- Tullaghanstown, Co. Meath
- Teacher: Áine, Bean Mhic Cába
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0698, Page 234
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- In olden times the people had only two meals in the day, one about six o-clock in the morning and the other at about six in the evening.
People used to get up early and work before they got anything to eat and then they would get their breakfast after four hours hard work every morning.
Potatoes were not very plentiful in olden times, and instead of them they had to drink black tea, because a great famine came and the potatoes decayed in the ground.
Long ago the people used to take out the table and sit round it and eat at it. In olden times people had a special place made for the table when not in use, It was a big space made in the side of the wall and it was tied up with two chains.
The bread, that was eaten in olden times, was called oaten meal(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Janey Lowry
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Bohermeen, Co. Meath
- Informant
- James Lowry
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 54
- Occupation
- Farmer
- Address
- Bohermeen, Co. Meath
