School: Bilboa (roll number 11331)
- Location:
- Bilboa, Co. Laois
- Teacher: Muriel Collier
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0839, Page 175
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- People ate three meals every day, namely breakfast, dinner and supper. The breakfast was eaten in the morning, dinner at mid-day and supper in the evening.People always worked in the morning before having food.The breakfast consisted of porridge and oaten bread. The dinner varied sometimes it consisted of porridge sometimes potatoes and bacon and so on. For supper they had porridge again with milk.Sour milk and sweet milk were drunk.At meals people sat round the table in the centre of the floor.In some houses the disused tables(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Elizabeth Watchorn
- Gender
- Female
- Informant
- Mrs Sarah Watchorn
- Gender
- Female
- Age
- 56
- Occupation
- Farmer's wife
- Address
- Croghtenclogh, Co. Kilkenny
