School: Baile an Oileáin (B.) (roll number 2808)

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1. Hurling and Football Matches (continued)

   

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   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.

   
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   Eugene Moriarty
   Leamnaguilea
   Farranfore

   

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2. Food in Olden Times

   

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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

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   Topics

   1. products
      1. food products (~3,601)

   Language

   English

   Collector

   Eugene Moriarty

   Gender

   Male

   Address

   Leamnaguila, Co. Kerry

   Informant

   John Moriarty

   Gender

   Male

   Age

   74

   Address

   Leamnaguila, Co. Kerry