School: Mullinavat Convent
- Location:
- Mullinavat, Co. Kilkenny
- Teacher: Sr. M. Lorcán
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The bread mostly used was oaten bread, but in the better class houses whole-meal bread was used. Oatmeal bread was the most common for school going children. Vegetables were not used very much, but a very common vegetable in those days was water-grass. This was found growing wild in drains or marshy places. People did not ate late at night because they went to bed early. There was no such thing as candles or parifin oil in those days. People made their own candles from rushes, by skinning them and steeping them in Tallow.
Tea was fist introduced in the district about the year 1857. The vessels then used were wooden.
- Collector
- Sally Liddane
- Gender
- Female
- Informant
- Gda. Keegan
- Gender
- Unknown
- Address
- Mullinavat, Co. Kilkenny
