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School: Ballystrang (roll number 15364)

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Ballystrang, Co. Donegal
Teacher:
Seosamh Ó Cuinn
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 1103, Page 101

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    was potato bread. They got boiled potatoes and mixed them with flour so they thought this very good bread. Next was oaten bread. They got oaten meal and softened it with hot water and then they hardened it and left it on a griddle beside the fire to make ready. When a man would come to a person to cut turf he would get no breakfast till eleven oclock and then he would get a bowl of oaten porridge, then they would get no tea. One time a woman got half a pound of
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    History Edit
    Topics
    1. products
      1. food products (~3,601)
    Language
    English
    Collector
    Tessie Bonner
    Gender
    Female
    Address
    Ballystrang, Co. Donegal
    Informant
    Nancy Browne
    Gender
    Female
    Address
    Ballystrang, Co. Donegal