School: Tullyvin
- Location:
- Tullyvin, Co. Cavan
- Teacher: M. Feeney
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 1020, Page 428
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- The people had three meals in olden times. Their breakfast, dinner, and supper. They had their breakfast at eight o clock, their dinner at one o clock, their supper at seven o clock. People worked in the morning before having food. The meals consisted of porridge, oat-meal-bread, milk and potatoes. Potatoes were not eaten at every meal. Cows milk was drunk. People sat around a table or potato basket in the center of the floor. The potato basket was hung on a peg in the wall. Oat-meal bread was eaten. This was made by mixing oat-meal and salt to a stiff paste with(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Gerard Benedict Mc Hugh
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Long, Co. Cavan
