School: Baile Dubh, (C.) (roll number 15541)
- Location:
- Ballyduff, Co. Waterford
- Teacher: Bríd, Bean Uí Dhriaghail
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0634, Page 601
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- (continued from previous page)living in the district.
The landlord Drew was very cruel and hard on the workmen and paid them a miserable wage, but he did not evict any of them.
- In olden times people had two or three meals a day - breakfast about nine o'clock, dinner between one and two, and supper about eight when work was finished.
Workmen went to work at six and got nothing to eat till about nine.
For breakfast potatoes and a little sour milk were served and those a little better off had wheaten bread or rye bread.
For the dinner they got big tin dishes of boiled yellow meal stirabout, large wooden spoons were supplied and some sour milk in wooden pegs.(continues on next page) - Collector
- Lizzie Daly
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Ballyduff, Co. Waterford
- Informant
- James Daly
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 58
- Address
- Ballyduff, Co. Waterford
