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School: Island View, Cill an Dísirt (roll number 14196)

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Tonlegee, Co. Clare
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Micheál Ó Cochláin
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0605, Page 126

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    In olden times the people eat three meals the breakfast the dinner and the supper. Before the breakfast the women went out and threshed the wheat and then made a cake of it for their breakfast.
    The men often brought a creel of turf from the bog or cut some hay before they had the breakfast. The staple food was potatoes and milk. They had many kinds of bread. They made bread of barley and of wheat.
    While they were eating they had the table out from the wall and when they were finished they put back the table again. It was very seldom
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