School: Anabla
- Location:
- Anablaha, Co. Kerry
- Teacher: Seán Ó Súilleabháin
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0454, Page 038
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- (continued from previous page)the gruel they ate it in the middle of the floor. when they were eating potatoes they pulled out the table in the middle of the floor and they put a coarse bag on it. They put the potatoes on the bowl and they began to eat.
The bread they had was in squares. Meat was only eaten every Sunday, and it was salt meat they had. They only drank tea at Christmas and they ate eggs on Easter Sunday. Tea became plentiful about thirty years ago. It was out of timber mugs they drank their tea. Timber mugs were made from solid blocks of the sycamore tree.
