School: Clochar
- Location:
- Clogher, Co. Mayo
- Teacher: M. Ó Gealbháin
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0095, Page 86
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- (continued from previous page)for some time until it would harden. They had a kind of frame and they used to leave the cake against the frame in a standing position in front of the fire until it got brown and then it would be baked.
The houses were very small. Cattle pigs and fowl had to kept inside in the house by night with the people because they had no out houses for them.
There were no ploughs or harrows in these days either. A rich person who had a lot of land may have them. They did all their farm work with a spade and shovel. Hay had to be cut with a scythe because there were no moving machines then. The oats was cut with a hook.
In these days the poor men had to work for the Land Lords for what ever wages he liked to give them, generally four-pence a day: even for mowing.(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Bridget Mary Hughes
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Ballydavock, Co. Mayo
