School: Baile an Oileáin (B.) (roll number 2808)
- Location:
- Ballinillane, Co. Kerry
- Teacher: Eoghan Ua Muircheartaigh
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0460, Page 630
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- (continued from previous page)Weight-throwing was also in vogue. A heavy stone was cast off the shoulder. A light stone was thrown from the hand after the thrower had wheeled round two or three times. Weight-throwing was practised at Cross roads where young men used assemble in the evening or on Sundays.
COLLECTED BYEugene Moriarty
Leamnaguilea
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- People ate three meals a day in olden times. These were breakfast, dinner and supper. There was a good number of people who ate only two meals a day - breakfast at ten o'clock in the morning, and dinner at five o'clock in the evening. Breakfast was eaten at nine o'clock in the morning, dinner at two o'clock P.M. and supper between eight and(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Eugene Moriarty
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Leamnaguila, Co. Kerry
- Informant
- John Moriarty
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 74
- Address
- Leamnaguila, Co. Kerry
