School: Calary, Bray
- Location:
- Calary Lower, Co. Wicklow
- Teacher: Bean de Faoite
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0912, Page 172
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- Long ago people used to work harder and still live on three good meals a day, or some times a meal extra.
They used work before their breakfast in the morning, and the breakfast they would have is yellow porridge, and this would be brought down to them in a big jar to the field where they were working.
In some homes potatoes were eaten twice a day, for dinner, and supper, and very seldom tea was sued. Porridge was mostly used for the breakfast, cows and goats milk used to be drank along with the potatoes.
Most of the tables were in the centre(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Alice Sutton
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Glasnamullen, Co. Wicklow
- Informant
- Mr John Sutton
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 50
- Address
- Glasnamullen, Co. Wicklow
