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School: An Clochán (roll number 7777)

Location:
Cloghans Hill, Co. Mayo
Teacher:
Liam Breathnach
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0105, Page 084

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  1. Béaloideas Éireann - Bia na Seanaimsire/Food Long Ago

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    Long ago the people in Ireland had different food to what they have now. The kind of bread they had was Whole-meal and oten cakes baked in a griddle. They had other kind of food. It was oat-meal wet with water. They called it porridge.
    If the people in these times, saw a person fit, they would say, he was swollen with porridge. They had knives made if wood to cut the bread. They had wooden spoons also to eat the porridge. The most of the people had not any tables.
    They would sit round a skib in the middle of the floor to eat their food. The skib was left on
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    History Edit
    Topics
    1. products
      1. food products (~3,601)
    Language
    English
    Collector
    Nellie Noone
    Gender
    Female
    Address
    Rathgranagher (Lindsay), Co. Mayo
    Informant
    James Noone
    Relation
    Parent
    Gender
    Male
    Address
    Rathgranagher (Lindsay), Co. Mayo