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School: Ráth Morgáin (roll number 15966)

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Ráth Muireagáin, Co. Mayo
Teacher:
Bean Uí Cholmáin
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0130, Page 431

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    dinner that day. And they used not take anything else that day. They used to have a lot of every sort of bread in those days. They used to have Indian meal bread and oatmeal bread and barley bread and rye bread and boxty in the olden days. It is on a gridd iron they used to bake their bread. There were a lot of strong and healthy men in the country in those days. And their is not a strong man in the country now. The people used to think it a great thing to get a feed of dry potatoes or boxty in those days.
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