School: Maigh Locha (Buachaillí)
- Location:
- Moylough, Co. Galway
- Teacher: Muiris Ó Héigeartaigh
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0081, Page 028
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- The food the people have now is not the same as the food the people used in the olden day. They had two meals a day and these meals consisted of boiled potatoes and buttermilk.
Some people used to go out and cut hay early in the morning before they ate their breakfast. The people sat around the table and a big pot of boiled potatoes was turned over onto the table and each person had a mug of buttermilk and a large lump of butter and that was the meal they had morning and night and it made fine, strong healthy mean of them, some of them lived very long lives.
The common bread eaten that time was oaten meal bread baked on a griddle on the hearth.
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