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 605
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- (continued from previous page)always boasted that he ate twenty one eggs and a goose egg. That was the only day in the year they got eggs.
Tea has been in use in this district about fifty years. For a few years previous to that the master and mistress only used have tea for breakfast.
Wooden pegs about the size of a cup were used from which to drink the tea.
- Football matches were very frequently played and between the men of two townlands the game was played. Ballysaggart boys used play against the boys of Ballyduff. No goals were used but the boys, twenty one on each side, would meet in a field between the two townlands.
An outsider would stand in the centre(continues on next page) - Collector
- Lizzie Daly
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Ballyduff, Co. Waterford
- Informant
- James Daly
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 58
- Address
- Ballyduff, Co. Waterford
