School: Loughteague, Stradbally (roll number 6129)
- Location:
- Leacht Tíog, Co. Laoise
- Teachers: Brigid Keane Brighid Ní Chatháin
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- (continued from previous page)The breakfast would be at 7 not laterDinner 12 noon
Boiled potatoes, American bacon boiled and cabbage with a drink of water or buttermilk.Tea 5 p. m. sometimes taken out to the field, sometimes taken in the house.Supper - Potatoes, salt & skim milk, as for breakfast.
This was the last meal for the men 6 p.m.
After the Rosary about 9 or 10 p.m. a saucepan of new milk was put down and the master or mistress and myself got a sup.Johnny Lalor this farmer, farmed 20 Irish acres occupied long thatched house - parlour, bed-room and kitchen. Man & wife occupied the bedroom, "the girl" slept in a press - bed in the parlour. The workman slept in the settle bed on a straw - bed Straw put in a canvas cover with bits of poor blankets and a couple of old coats thrown over him. I had a nice little feather bed and fairly good shelter. I had two sheets, a blanket and a druggel? quilt.
The man & wife had a good wooden four-poster bed with sheets, blankets & druggel quilts. There was a plain table, a looking - glass and towel - no jug or basin though, you'd take in your tin basin and water to wash.
Then there was a big press for clothes. No fireplace.(continues on next page)- Informant
- Mrs Rody Delaney
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- An Pháirc, Co. Laoise