School: Coill na Leac
- Location:
- Kilnaleck, Co. Cavan
- Teacher: P. Mac Geibheannaigh
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- Long ago food was not as good as it is now. People ate nothing in the morning, until about ten o clock in the morning. They took three meals, their breakfast, about ten o clock, their dinner at one o clock, and supper about six o cock in the evening. Their breakfast consisted of oaten meal porridge, and to their dinner, they took potatoes and butter-milk, and at their supper they took porridge.
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