School: Kilmaganny, Thomastown
- Location:
- Kilmaganny, Co. Kilkenny
- Teacher: C. Ó Hurdail
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- (continued from previous page)floor when the people were eating their meals but when not being used, it was placed by the wall.
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- Collector
- Patrick Dunne
- Gender
- Male
- Three meals, breakfast, dinner & supper. For breakfast, they had bran-bread, butter and milk; for dinner, they had potatoes, sour milk & salt meat & for their supper, beforre they went to bed, they had stirabout with sour milk on it.
- Three meals - stirabout for breakfast & supper & potatoes for dinner.
The bread they used was oat-meal bread. When being made, it was wet with water. Fish was eaten.
Pints were used before cups.
