School: Caisleán Nua (B) (roll number 15771)
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- 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. - You are not logged in, but you are welcome to contribute a transcription anonymously. In this case, your IP address will be stored in the interest of quality control.By clicking the save button you agree that your contribution will be available under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License and that a link to dúchas.ie is sufficient as attribution.