School: Cill na dTor, Dún Mánmhaí (roll number 16254)
- Location:
- Kilnadur, Co. Cork
- Teacher: Pádraig Ó Donnabháin
Archival Reference
The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0305, Page 127
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- During the bad times the whole country-side was thickly populated.
The people lived in little thatched houses in valleys, on hill-sides and in places that have grown wild since then.
The people were very poor and some of them worked for four pence a day. Their chief food was potatoes, sour milk and yellow meal. The labourers were hired by the farmers by the quarter and their time was marked on a stick called a score-stick.
[drawing of score-stick]
It was a straight stick split in two halves and one half was kept by the farmer and the other by the workman. Each day's work was marked by a straight notch or scar on the score stick and every ten(continues on next page)
