School: Stonehall, Cora Caitlín
- Location:
- Stonehall, Co. Clare
- Teacher: Páidraig Mac Cormaic
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0599, Page 434
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Killula:- Stackpoole Mahons
Ralahine:- Stoney
Drumline:- Boucher
Shepperton, Trenahow, Jug:- Captain Singleton
Drumguila:- Lord Leckonfield
An emergencyman who was minding boycotted land in Clenagh was shot between two policemen at Ballycar.
- Old-time food.
People in the old times ate two meals: breakfast and supper. They ate porridge for breakfast and potatoes for supper. the drank sour milk - long milk they called it. Every Xmas they got a half-pound of tea and they spared that by making it very light. They spread a bag on the floor and the family ate potatoes from it; or they placed the pot in the centre of the kitchen floor and ate from it.
They ate meat at Christmas, Easter and on special days. They had a small piece of meat hanging over the fire-place "and if any special person came to the house the people of the house would give him a small piece"(continues on next page)
