School: Ballinvally (C.) (roll number 932)
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- Ballinvally, Co. na hIarmhí
- Teacher: S. Nic Shiomóin
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- (continued from previous page)Tables.
There is a similar table in Briody's of Brownstown, Delvin, which is hung up when not in use. There is a big iron bar on the end of the table and it is hung up when not in use. It is caught at the end of the wall with two big crooks. There is one big leg in the middle. There is a big block in the ceiling and it is to this block the table is lifted up and caught.
People used get up at five or six in the mornings and have a days work done before breakfast. They also used go to bed early and get up in the middle of the night to eat and go out to hunt and fish.
Oaten Bread.
They got a big dish of oaten meal and put it on a little stool made for the purpose. They put salt into the dish and mixed it with the meal and then mixed with soft water and rolled it with a saucepan until they got it into shape. Then they(continues on next page)
