School: Beglieve
- Location:
- Beglieve, Co. Cavan
- Teacher: Brigid Duffy
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 1016, Page 074
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- About fifty or sixty years ago the people ate three meal every day. In the morning they had a breakfast of porridge, at noon they had potatoes and buttermilk, or if not they ate gruel, and at night they ate porridge.
The children brought oaten bread to school. At hallow e'en they had boxty bread. A travelling woman told mrs. McEnroe Killcross, Beglieve, Bailienoro, to buy a quarter of tea and make a sup of it for herself every morning. Long ago the potato basket was hung on the wall. The people bought meat some time before Christmas and salted its to keep it fresh for Christmas day. Turnips, cabbage, parsnips and parsley.(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Mary Clarke
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Beglieve, Co. Cavan
