School: Moyne (C.) (roll number 13990)
- Location:
- Moyne, Co. Longford
- Teacher: Bean Uí Tháibh
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- Long ago people took only three meals a day. They were their breakfast, dinner and supper. Sometimes people ate stirabout and roasted potatoes. Sometimes they ate boxty. There was no tea long ago. People went out and worked before their breakfast. They often mowed for two or three hours before their breakfast. On a Sunday morning people gathered up and set half an acre of potatoes for a widow woman before Mass time. The Dromard road was made in the year of the Public Works. Men and women worked on it. They got eight pence a day. The people carried clay on their backs. Each person bought a pound of meal. They all joined up and boiled it in one pot. They bought the meal from a man named Matthew Donohoe. It cost two shillings and sixpence a stone. That meal did them from they went in the morning until they came home at night. The meal was(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Peggy Mc Shane
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Leggagh, Co. Longford
- Informant
- Michael Mc Shane
- Relation
- Parent
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 60
- Occupation
- Farmer
- Address
- Leggagh, Co. Longford
