School: Machaire Áirne
- Location:
- Magherarny, Co. Monaghan
- Teacher: P. Mac Aodhgáin
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- They ate hard oaten bread and porridge, potatoes, cabbage and their own home cured Irish bacon, boxty and potato bread. They drank buttermilk and mead - a drink made of honey.
They ate four meals in a day the breakfast, dinner and tea and supper.
They churned and did all the morning's work before the got their breakfast. There was plenty of butter milk drunk in olden times.
There was a big table that was pulled out with a leg under it for the breakfast. They sat around the basket of potatoes for the dinner.
They sat around the porridge pot with their bowls of new milk and took as much as they liked.
