School: Seandrom, Ráth Luirc (roll number 11499)
- Location:
- Shandrum, Co. Cork
- Teacher: Eibhlis, Bean Uí Bhriain
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- 3 meals potatoes and sour milk. Up at 6 a. m. to boil them. 6/30 - 12 noon. 6/30 "Dip the dry one in the wet one".Work before eating in Summer.
Eat before work in Winter.
" - " a day hire.
Table in middle of floor - family and servants all at one table. Tables put one up on another when not in use.
Often a family sat around a pot - [?] of stirabout with a basin in hand of each - basin full of sour milk, and each dipped spoon in stirabout.Cheer boys cheer
My mother bought a blanket
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She sold it back again
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She got a penny profit
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