School: Caisleán Gael (roll number 15337)
- Location:
- Castlegal, Co. Sligo
- Teacher: M. Ó Tiománaidhe
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- (continued from previous page)or bought from fishermen. The potatoes were again in use at this meal.
The supper consisted of porridge or potatoes again; usually the former. This was the final meal. Of course occasionally as on Feast Days fowl were used or rabbits or hares.
Some even used blackbirds or thrushes which they caught in the woods.
The vegetables eaten were cabbages, onions
If people were going a journey or going to the bog, some distance from the house, they brought away with them oatmeal-bread baked thus. Oatmeal, salt(continues on next page)
