School: Caisleán Nua (B) (roll number 15771)
- Location:
- Newcastle, Co. Galway
- Teacher: Seán S. Ó Faoláin
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- (continued from previous page)two ounces. The people used a lot of milk and they also used a lot of potatoes. They seldom used meat except when they killed wildbirds for wild-animals.
Very often if the people had any work to do they went out and finished it before their breakfast.
In the poorer districts the people only had rye-bread. It was called arán seagal. It was very hard to eat this bread.
- Long ago the shops were not as plenty as they are now, because the people did not buy much only such as starch, blue and candles.
There was a shop in this district. It belonged to the Jordans of Newcastle. It was called a "Shebeen". In this shop groceries and stout were sold. There was also another "Shebeen" in Newcastle. It belonged to a Mrs Healy. All she used to sell was "poteen" which she used make herself.
There is nothing sold outside the chapel in this district but in(continues on next page)
