School: Baile an Mhuilinn, An Droichead Nua (roll number 16654)
- Location:
- Baile an Mhuilinn, Co. Chill Dara
- Teacher: S.P. Ó Donnchadha
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0775, Page 496
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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. - In olden times the people ate three meals a day only. These were breakfas dinner and supper. They were eaten in the morning, noon and night. The people of olden times worked before their food in the morning.Sometimes the food would be sent to the field in which they worked and they would eat it in the open field. Some people ate potatoes with milk at every meal.It was usually oaten bread that people used in olden times. Fish was eaten often with vegetables and potatoes. People never ate food late at night. The people of old had a custom of eating a lot of some special(continues on next page)
