School: Borrisoleigh, Glenkeen (roll number 590)
- Location:
- Borrisoleigh, Co. Tipperary
- Teacher: Tomás de Búrca
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0545, Page 043
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- (continued from previous page)They used to work in the morning before they eat their breakfast. Their breakfast you'st to consest of yellow meal porridge and a cup of souer milk and some salt. For their supper it was either potatoes or poridge and a mug of souer milk. For their dinner it was potatoes and milk. They sat in the center of the floor, if they were a big family in it, If they were a small family it would be near a wall.
- The bread that was mad in my district long ago was pan cakes, Griddle-cake, Oat-meal(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Brigid Ryan
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Gorteennabarna, Co. Tipperary
- Informant
- Mrs Ned Ryan
- Gender
- Female
- Age
- 45
- Address
- Gorteennabarna, Co. Tipperary
