School: Leitre (roll number 16164)
- Location:
- Lettera, Co. Galway
- Teacher: Seán Ó Reachtaire
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0012, Page 082
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- (continued from previous page)The people used to make potato-bread and oaten bread, and boxty bread to eat. The used to make farles of the bread and bake it in a pan. The people used not eat much meat long ago, but when they used to eat it, it is salty meat they used to have. Some times they used to have fish for their dinner. They used to buy the fish in the market. It is milk they used to drink instead of tea.
- A man was walking one day through a large city. At a street corner he saw a boy with a number of small birds for sale in a cage. He looked with sadness upon the little birds flying about the cage, peeping through the wires and try-(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Patrick Raftery
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Cloonnacat, Co. Galway
- Informant
- Brian Raftery
- Relation
- Unknown
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Cloonnacat, Co. Galway
