School: Ceann Tuirc (B.) (roll number 14052)
- Location:
- Kanturk, Co. Cork
- Teacher: Liam Ó Caoimh
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- (continued from previous page)times for eating the meals. Some people used to milk their cows and do odd jobs before their breakfast.
Each meal consisted of potatoes and milk, and all the meals were the same. It was nearly always goat's milk that was drunk, but some-times butter-milk was drunk.
The people, that had tables, generally put the table in the middle of the floor, and when it was not being used it was put near the wall, but all the poorer class had no table, only an upturned tub, and they often ate off the ground.
All home-made bread was eaten.
Meat was eaten only twice during they year -(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Neil Daly
- Gender
- Male
- Informant
- Mr Patrick Cahill
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Greenfield, Co. Cork
