School: Boulavogue
- Location:
- Boleyvogue, Co. Wexford
- Teacher: Énrí Tréinfhear
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- (continued from previous page)They ate fish for supper. People never ate at night because they went to bed about nine o'clock.
(My mother told me this).
(My mother Mrs M Breen is 56 yrs)
Martin Breen,
Ballydonegan, Ferns, Co Wexford.
- Oaten stirabout was eaten at breakfast and supper. For their dinner they got potatoes and buttermilk or sweet milk and on one or two days they would get potatoes and cabbage and salted meat. Oaten bread and wheaten bread were eaten. Ling fish was eaten. The only vegetable used was cabbage. Oaten bread was eaten but it is not eaten now-a-days.Brian Kenny (56 yrs)
The Harrow, Ferns, Co Wexford
(told me this)Michael Parle,
The Harrow, Boolavogue, Ferns, Co Wexford - Collector
- Michael Parle
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Ballycarrigeen Upper, Co. Wexford
- Informant
- Brian Kenny
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 56
- Address
- Ballycarrigeen Upper, Co. Wexford
