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School: Achadh Luachra

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Aghaloory, Co. Cavan
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S. Ó Hárdaigh
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0991, Page 010

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    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
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    History Edit
    Topics
    1. products
      1. food products (~3,601)
    Language
    English
    Collector
    Teresa Leddy
    Gender
    Female
    Address
    Ardleny, Co. Cavan
    Informant
    Annie Leddy
    Gender
    Female
    Age
    73
    Address
    Ardleny, Co. Cavan