School: Ballyragget Convent
- Location:
- Ballyragget, Co. Kilkenny
- Teacher: -
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- (continued from previous page)on a dish and threw out the tea. Before cups, the vessels used were noggins.
- In olden times people had breakfast at eight o clock, dinner at midday, and supper before going to bed.
In Lent, people worked until twelve o clock, and then their meal consisted of herrings, black tea and bread.
Potatoes were eaten twice and sometimes three times a day. Homemade bread was eaten except in Lent when baker's bread was used. Beef was seldom eaten except at Christmas time. Then a butcher named Ned Coogan might kill a beef. Before(continues on next page) - Collector
- Marion Byrne
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Ballyragget, Co. Kilkenny
- Informant
- Mrs Coogan
- Gender
- Female
- Age
- 72
- Address
- Ballyragget, Co. Kilkenny
