School: Ballycastle Boys' (roll number 14290)
- Location:
- Ballycastle, Co. Mayo
- Teacher: Mícheál de Búrca
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0140, Page 236
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- (continued from previous page)a Goldeneagle came and rested on a fence all day in Rathoonagh while the evictions were being carried out.
- In olden times the people eat only three meals a day breakfast dinner and supper. People worked a few hours each morning before they eat any food.
The usual breakfast consisted of potatoes and milk or porridge and milk.
Potatoes were eaten at every meal when the people had to eat.
People who hud milk always drank milk with potatoes.
It was the custom that the potatoes would be eaten off a wide basket placed on a stool in(continues on next page) - Collector
- Eamon Kelly
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Ballycastle, Co. Mayo
- Informant
- Thomas Kelly
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 53
- Address
- Ballycastle, Co. Mayo
