School: Cronaghbois (roll number 2658)

Location:
Crannogeboy, Co. Donegal
Teacher:
Criostóir Ó Beirn
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    over completed in a public house by having a drink.
    Sold animals are marked by the jobber (buyer) with pain[t] or by clipping some of the hair with a scissors.
    Transcribed by a member of our volunteer transcription project.
  2. Long ago people ate only two meals per day and later on three meals. The meals consisted of potatoes and buttermilk twice a day. Meat was not used but fish were if obtainable locally. Herring and salmon were the kinds caught.
    "Shore - meat" consisting of whelks, barnacles, dulse, slabhac, black tops and carrigeen moss were extensively used.
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