School: Lusk (C.) (roll number 719)
- Location:
- Lusk, Co. Dublin
- Teacher: S. Ní Shúilleabháin
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0786, Page 207
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- (continued from previous page)They had no sugar in those days but they made up for this by using honey. Besides water and milk, the principal drinks in use were mead, ale and wine which were brought over in foreign or native ships from France and Italy.Nearly all the people had their own oats and barley to make the bread as they did not grow wheat because the land was too wet.
- Collector
- Maureen Devine
- Gender
- Female
- Informant
- Matthew Devine
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- Parent
- Gender
- Male
