School: Ballyroebuck (roll number 12841)

Location:
Ballyroebuck, Co. Wexford
Teacher:
Seán Diolúin
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  1. There were only two meals eaten in the day, the breakfast and supper. The kind of food that they took for the breakfast was a feed of porridge and butter-milk. Sometimes they had black bread and tea.
    Before they got their breakfast they had to do three or four hours' work. On Ash Wednesday they would not get their breakfast until after twelve o' clock.
    When they would be getting ready for bed they got a piece of cold porridge in their hands. On Sundays they got a small piece of meat or some kind of fish. The poor people never got a piece of meat on any day except Christmas-day.
    Transcribed by a member of our volunteer transcription project.
    Topics
    1. products
      1. food products (~3,601)
    Language
    English
    Collector
    Jeremiah Fitzpatrick
    Gender
    Male
    Address
    Ballynancoran, Co. Wexford
    Informant
    Mr O' Neill
    Gender
    Male
    Address
    Dunishal, Co. Wexford