School: Fearth Mór (Brooklawn) (roll number 15508)
- Location:
- Fartamore, Co. Galway
- Teacher: Treasa, Bean Mhic Aonghusa
Archival Reference
The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0040, Page 0321
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- Long ago the people ate two meals a day, one in the morning and the other in the evening. The meal they ate in the morning they called it the breakfast and the one they ate in the evening they called it the dinner.
The men had to work before their breakfast in the morning. The wealthy people are whole meal bread and milk for their breakfast because they had the land to grow the wheat. The poor people had to eat oaten bread and milk.
If the poor people had not oaten meal to make cakes they ate potatoes and butter milk for their breakfast and for their dinner also.
Long ago the people had no tables but skibs left on a pot and the people sitting around it eating.
The rich people kept a pig and killed him at the end of the year for meat. The poor people thought it a great thing if they(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Ide Ní Mhanghain
- Gender
- Female
- Informant
- James Mangan
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Liskeevy, Co. Galway
