School: Shinrone (B.)
- Location:
- Shinrone, Co. Offaly
- Teacher: William Mac Mahon
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- Long ago people in Ireland ate three meals a day. Their meals consisted of porridge and milk in the morning. about 7.30 a.m. and their dinner was of potatoes, milk and butter about 12 p.m. and oaten bread and milk at 6 p.m.
A good deal of work was done before the breakfast such as fodering [?] milking and feeding cattle and horse's. The table was always brought out in the middle of the floor during meal hours and then pushed in against the wall.
At that time wheaten and oaten bread was eaten(continues on next page)