School: Loughteague, Stradbally (roll number 6129)

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   The breakfast would be at 7 not later

   Dinner 12 noon
   Boiled potatoes, American bacon boiled and cabbage with a drink of water or buttermilk.

   Tea 5 p. m. sometimes taken out to the field, sometimes taken in the house.

   Supper - Potatoes, salt & skim milk, as for breakfast.
   This was the last meal for the men 6 p.m.
   After the Rosary about 9 or 10 p.m. a saucepan of new milk was put down and the master or mistress and myself got a sup.

   Johnny Lalor this farmer, farmed 20 Irish acres occupied long thatched house - parlour, bed-room and kitchen. Man & wife occupied the bedroom, "the girl" slept in a press - bed in the parlour. The workman slept in the settle bed on a straw - bed Straw put in a canvas cover with bits of poor blankets and a couple of old coats thrown over him. I had a nice little feather bed and fairly good shelter. I had two sheets, a blanket and a druggel? quilt.
   The man & wife had a good wooden four-poster bed with sheets, blankets & druggel quilts. There was a plain table, a looking - glass and towel - no jug or basin though, you'd take in your tin basin and water to wash.
   Then there was a big press for clothes. No fireplace.

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   Topics

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

   Language

   English

   Informant

   Mrs Rody Delaney

   Gender

   Female

   Address

   Park, Co. Laois