School: Baurnafea, Paulstown (roll number 807)
- Location:
- Baurnafea, Co. Kilkenny
- Teacher: Sean Moffat
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0861, Page 323
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- (continued from previous page)stirabout (made from Indian corn) and buttermilk were the only foods used by them. Men working in the flag quarries never eat anything else yet they were remarkable for their spendidly developed bodies and perfect teeth.
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- Haycutting was done with the scythe. James Staunton was a middle aged man when the first haycutting machine came to Ballygurteen. He well remembered the excitement it caused and the crowds of "hill" farmers who came to examine this new wonder. The Corn Crop was reaped with the hook, and hard, wearying back breaking work it was counted. The reapers worked from dawn almost till dark. After the reaper came the women binders. Slow & labourious as this work was there was no lack of help. Hundreds of reapers gathered at the "hiring fair" in(continues on next page)
