School: Baile Glas (Meastha), An Bhlárna (roll number 10930)
- Location:
- Ballyglass, Co. Cork
- Teacher: Máiréad, Bean Uí Bhuachalla
Archival Reference
The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0388, Page 132
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- (continued from previous page)milk. The dinner was potatoes, and milk, sometimes meat, and potatoes or gruel for supper.
The kind of bread that was used was homemade cake, made with butter milk. Meat was seldom used. Vegetables were sometimes eaten.
Certain kinds of food were taken on special ocasions, such as Christmas, Easter, and Fast Days. Tea was first used in the district about eighty years ago. Basins were used instead of cups long ago. People worked in the morning before breakfast.(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Mary Walsh
- Gender
- Female
- Informant
- Micheal Walsh
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Ballymorisheen, Co. Cork
