School: Baile Uí Dhuibh (B.) (roll number 13635)
- Location:
- Ballyduff West, Co. Waterford
- Teacher: Ambrose Madders
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- (continued from previous page)not go and so they had to turn back.
- The food most frequently used long ago was potatoes, salt, and milk. The meals they had were breakfast, dinner, and supper. The breakfast was at six o'clock in the morning. This consisted of yellow meal porridge skim milk and sometimes butter milk. The dinner was at half past twelve o'clock. This consisted of potatoes, salt, and bacon, which they used cure themselves. When they had the dinner eaten they used to drink some milk. They had the supper at six o'clock. This meal consisted of oaten-meal porridge and yellow-meal porridge. The people used work for three or four hours before their breakfast. Potatoes were not used at every(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Richard Walsh
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Ardeenloun East, Co. Waterford
- Informant
- Richard Walshe
- Relation
- Unknown
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 59
- Address
- Ardeenloun East, Co. Waterford
