School: Tullaghanstown (roll number 9605)
- Location:
- Tullaghanstown, Co. Meath
- Teacher: Áine, Bean Mhic Cába
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- (continued from previous page)generation does. We are told people in the country worked for some hours before their breakfast.
In Summer and Harvest time breakfast was brought out to the fields where they worked. It consisted of a large wooden dish of porridge, a can of buttermilk, and some oaten bread.
The porridge was served from the dish to wooden vessels shaped like tiny tubs called "noggins" and this is all they took. They usually came home to their dinner which consisted mostly of home cured bacon, cabbage and potatoes.
For tea they only used oaten bread made on a griddle and for supper they used porridge or potatoes. The people in those times were not very particular about their table decoration for a basket of potatoes was the commonest ornament on them for most of their meals.
Meat was not used much, except on special occasions such(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Tommie Tuite
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Tullaghanstown, Co. Meath
- Informant
- Bennie Tuite
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 54
- Occupation
- Farmer
- Address
- Tullaghanstown, Co. Meath
