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School: Baile Ruadh (Cailíní)

Location:
Ballyroe, Co. Galway
Teacher:
Máire, Bean Uí Fhearghail
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0013, Page 298

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    In olden times people had three meals a day breakfast which was at eight o' clock and dinner at mid-day and lunch at six o' clock.
    The people used to get up at six o' clock and work at least two hours before having breakfast but the used to take a cup of sweideen which consisted of oat meal mixed with new milk.
    In some places the three meals consisted of potatoes, salt, and buttermilk and sheerins were for breakfast.
    The sheerins were the seeds taken from the oats at the mill and steeped in water for a week.
    The parents sat at the table and the children around a scib of
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    Transcribed by a member of our volunteer transcription project.
    History Edit
    Topics
    1. products
      1. food products (~3,601)
    Language
    Irish
    Collector
    Máire Ní hÉadbáird
    Gender
    Female
    Address
    Pollaneyster, Co. Galway
    Informant
    Bean M. Uí Bhreathnach
    Gender
    Female
    Age
    c. 74
    Address
    Pollaneyster, Co. Galway