School: Scoil Sheosaimh Ntha (Cailíní)
- Location:
- Glennamaddy, Co. Galway
- Teacher: Úna, Bean Uí Threasaigh
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- (continued from previous page)saten- bread. The white bread was made with butter-milk and soda but the saten bread was made with water. They made the cakes with their hands and not with spoons.
They used eat meat once a day long ago. They used eat fowl and meat mostly bacon. They used also eat herrings got in the lakes and sea. When they would invite a friend they would have special food.
The grandfathers of the present generation had no tea so it must have been lately that tea was first made. When it was made first they used throw away the tea and eat the leaves.
- Collector
- Pauline O' Dea
- Gender
- Female
- Informant
- Delia Raftery
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Glennamaddy, Co. Galway
