144 BRITISH RURAL LIFE AND LABOUR. 



WlCKLOW. 



WEEKDAYS Breakfast. Butter, bread, and tea. Dinner. 

 Potatoes, other vegetables, bacon, and milk. Tea. None. 

 Supper. Bread, butter, and tea. SUNDAYS. Same as on week- 

 days. 



PROVINCE OF MUNSTER. 



CLARE. 



WEEKDAYS Breakfast. Bread, butter, tea, and, in spring 

 and summer, eggs. Dinner. Tea, bread and butter. Tea. 

 Tea, bread and butter. Supper. Potatoes and milk. SUN- 

 DAYS Breakfast. Tea, bread and butter. Dinner. Bacon, 

 cabbage, and potatoes. Tea. None. Supper. Tea, bread 

 and butter. 



CORK. 



WEEKDAYS Breakfast. Home - made bread and tea. 

 Dinner. Pork, potatoes, and other vegetables, or, on fast days, 

 eggs or dried fish instead of pork. Tea. Home-made bread and 

 tea. Supper. Home-made bread and tea. SUNDAYS. Same 

 as on weekdays, with the addition of butter for breakfast, tea, 

 and supper. A variant from the dietary just given is as follows. 

 It is taken from another return : WEEKDAYS Breakfast. 

 Tea, bread, and occasionally butter or eggs. Dinner. Meat 

 seldom. Pork, salt or fresh, and potatoes. Sometimes potatoes 

 and milk only, and, on Fridays and fast days, fish, generally 

 salt. Tea. Same as for breakfast, with occasionally jam. 

 Supper. None. SUNDAYS. Same as on weekdays, with gener- 

 ally a piece of meat for dinner. 



KERRY. 



WEEKDAYS Breakfast. Tea, bread, sometimes eggs, and 

 other times butter. Dinner. Potatoes, American bacon, and, 

 if potatoes are scarce, cabbage, home-made bread, and on fast 

 days, fresh or salt fish. Tea. About 4 p.m. A quart of tea 

 with a piece of bread is brought to the field, and consumed while 

 the labourer is at work. Some few years ago this meal did not 

 exist. Supper. Potatoes, with a little fish or milk. At other 

 times bread and tea. SUNDAYS Breakfast. Tea, bread and 

 butter. Dinner. Potatoes and meat. Tea. Tea and bread 

 (dry). Supper. Bread and milk. From another return the 

 following is extracted : WEEKDAYS Breakfast. Bread and 

 tea. Dinner. Potatoes and milk or bread and milk. Tea. 

 Rarely taken. Supper. Bread and milk or Indian meal and 

 milk. SUNDAYS Breakfast. Bread and tea. Dinner. Potatoes 

 and pork, or potatoes and cured fish. Supper. Bread and 

 tea. 



LIMERICK. 



WEEKDAYS Breakfast. Bread, tea, and sometimes eggs 

 and butter. Dinner. The same as for breakfast. Tea. 



