School: Dunlavin (B.)
- Location:
- Dunlavin, Co. Wicklow
- Teacher: Mícheál Ó Gogáin
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0914, Page 071
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- From information I have received from an old resident in my townland Patrick Esemonde told me that long ago people got very small quantities of food. They only got two meals a day breakfast and dinner. They got breakfast at about ten o clock in the morning and dinner at about four o clock in the evening.
They did not get a morsel more until the next morning. The farmers or the workmen always worked from six o clock in the morning until breakfast time. Breakfast consisted of stirr-about and goats" milk or skim-milk
The dinner consisted of a few potatoes and salt fish. The well to do people might have a few potatoes every day and a cup of tea every Sunday.
The probable wealthy people in this district were, Nortons, Dixons, Whites Tynts, Molyneuxs. These people were very hospitable to their poorer(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Michael Carey
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Dunlavin, Co. Wicklow
- Informant
- Mr P. Esemonde
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 72
- Address
- Dunlavin, Co. Wicklow
