School: Baile Idir Dhá Abhainn (roll number 13196)
- Location:
- Baile idir Dhá Abhainn, Co. Shligigh
- Teacher: Ml. Mac Lochlainn
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0180, Page 150
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- (continued from previous page)When those people got up from their beds they would go out working for a few hours before their breakfast and they were healthier than the people nowadays. When people long ago made bread they had no ovens. The put the cake on a tongs on the fire to fire. Some of the people used to go out hunting and never came home without bringing something. The farmers grew their own wheat and ground it so as to make bread from it.
- The food which was used long ago was quite different from now. The farmers grew large crops of wheat and oats in those times as oaten bread was their principal food. They made the cakes out of oaten meal and then(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Maura Keaney
- Gender
- Female
