School: Breac-chluain
- Location:
- Brackloon South, Co. Mayo
- Teacher: Liam Mac Gabhann
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- (continued from previous page)Lord De Freyne had not a very good name, for once when a man could not pay his rent and lay dying in his bed, he threw him out to die outside. Lord Dillon had three bailifs.
- The people in this district took one meal a day in Winter and two meals a day in Summer. Their usual time for meals was ten o'clock in the morning and eight o'clock in the evening. They worked for about three hours in the morning before having food. The morning meal consisted of new milk and porridge and the evening meal of potatoes and buttermilk. They sat on the floor, round a scib of potatoes at night. Wheaten bread was eaten. It was made in a stone utensil with no yeast or other substance to make it rise.
- Collector
- Teresa Dyer
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Derrynacong, Co. Mayo
- Informant
- Mrs Deacey
- Gender
- Female
- Age
- 83
- Address
- Derrynacong, Co. Mayo
