School: Achadh Luachra
- Location:
- Aghaloory, Co. Cavan
- Teacher: S. Ó Hárdaigh
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0991, Page 010
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You are not logged in, but you are welcome to contribute a transcription anonymously. In this case, your IP address will be stored in the interest of quality control.By clicking the save button you agree that your contribution will be available under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License and that a link to dúchas.ie is sufficient as attribution. - Long ago the people ate three meals a day. They ate porridge and milk for their breakfast, cabbage and potatoes for their dinner, milk and oaten-bread that was baked on a griddle for their supper. They had their breakfast at nine Oclock, their dinner at two and their supper at nine. Long ago the people worked before their breakfast. Potatoes were not eaten at every meal. Plenty of milk was drunk long ago both butter-milk and new-milk. The people sat around the table which was placed near the wall. When the table was not in use it was hung up against the wall. The only kind of bread eaten by the people long ago was whole meal cakes of oat-meal or wheat-cakes baked on a griddle. First they put some wheaten(continues on next page)
