School: Clongeen (roll number 4652)

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1. Shops (continued)

   

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   Some of them come still a man comes from Ross and he is called Peggy's leg.

   

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2. Food and Shopping

   

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   Only three meals a day used to be eaten breakfast dinner and supper
   the breakfast used to be eaten about nine o clock. The men would go out to their work at five o clock and at nine the farmer would bring out a pot of yellow porridge and oaten bread the men would sit down in the field and eat it.
   At twelve o'clock they would come into their dinner of potatoes cabbage and bacon. They would eat their supper at six o'clock; for their supper they would have potatoes and buttermilk.
   They used to go to bed between half past seven and eight o clock.
   Potatoes were eaten at two meals and sometimes at the three meals. They used to pull out the kitchen table and everyone in the house would sit round it

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   Topics

   1. products
      1. food products (~3,601)

   Language

   English

   Collector

   Mary Ellen Berney

   Gender

   Female

   Address

   Clongeen, Co. Wexford

   Informant

   James Berney

   Gender

   Male