School: Lusmagh
- Location:
- Gortarevan, Co. Offaly
- Teacher: T. Ó Floinn
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- In olden times the people had three meals each day. For the breakfast they had porridge and milk and a little oaten cake. They had potatoes milk and salt for the dinner and other times they had turnips and cabbage. They had a little oaten cake for the supper. The people drank out of a vessel shaped like a saucepan only it is made of wood.
- Collector
- Kieran Hanniffy
- Gender
- Male