School: Pitfield, Inis (roll number 11091)
- Location:
- Cloondrinagh, Co. Clare
- Teacher: Tomás Ó Maonaigh
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- My grandfather John O Dea of Lavalla, Ballynacally in his time was a good Mower. At about four o clock in the morning he got up and had as a breakfast a bowl of sturobout. Then he got his scythe and went to the meadow. He continued like this untill about one o clock and then came in to dinner. He had potatoes and buttermilk for dinner. Then he started to mow again and at six o clock he had an Irish acre of hay leveled. He was a strong man and lived until about eighty years.
- Collector
- John O' Dea
- Gender
- Male
- Informant
- Patrick O' Dea
- Relation
- Grandparent
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Lavally, Co. Clare
