School: Bloomfield (roll number 10382)
- Location:
- Lavally, Co. Sligo
- Teacher: Seosamh Ó Cathasaigh
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0179, Page 216
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- One morning in the Spring time there went two or three men to Mrs Hyland turning sods. She did not expect themand had no meal to get their breakfast. She went out to the stack of oats for an armful She thrashed it and then dried the oats
When the oats was dry she took her quarn and ground it and made porridge and oat meal bread for their breakfast.
- Collector
- Kathleen Burke
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Riverstown, Co. Sligo
- A man named John Kilroy lived near Lough Allen. he was very poor and had no money to buy corn.
One Winter's evening he and his wife were seated beside the fire. There came a smal cow to the street outside. The man hunted her away from the house but(continues on next page)
