School: Walshestown (roll number 3245)
- Location:
- Walshestown North, Co. Westmeath
- Teacher: Bean Uí Dhuibhir
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0736, Page 427
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- The people ate three meals a day in olden times. The meals were breakfast, dinner and supper.
The breakfast was eaten early in the morning. They ate the dinner at mid-day and the supper in the evening at six o'clock.
The men worked for about an hour in the morning before their breakfast.
The breakfast was of wheaten-bread and milk or porridge.
The dinner consisted of bacon, cabbage and potatoes. They used potato bread in the evening.
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- Collector
- Philomena Healy
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Slanestown, Co. Westmeath
