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School: Baile Gaedhaelach (C.)

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An Baile Gaelach, Co. Mhaigh Eo
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Mrs Mc Manus
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    Three times a day meals were eaten long ago. The breakfast, the dinner, and the supper. Stirabout, milk or potatoes in the morning. Potatoes and cabbage for the dinner, potatoes or stirabout for there super. They would have to feed the cattle pigs fe before the meals in the morning
    Milk was drank at every meal. They had round mettle tables and a table cloth made of rods they used to sit around it, and it was near the wall. Oaten bread, boxty and potatoe cakes were made.
    They used to make oaten bread with meal and water. They used to scrape the [?]
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    History Edit
    Topics
    1. táirgí
      1. táirgí bia (~3,601)
    Language
    English
    Collector
    Julia Rattigan
    Gender
    Female
    Address
    Míleac, Co. Mhaigh Eo
    Informant
    Mrs Bridget Devane
    Gender
    Female
    Address
    Míleac, Co. Mhaigh Eo