School: Knockminna (roll number 12720)
- Location:
- Knockmoynagh, Co. Sligo
- Teacher: Máire Ní Scannláin
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0183, Page 461
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- (continued from previous page)Christmas, and then only a little bacon. Fish was not used either except dried salt herrings on Fridays. The only vegetable was cabbage. Eggs were eaten on Easter Sunday. Fresh meat was unknown.
The people never used and foreign food, and they lived to a very old age, and were hail and hearty at the age of eighty or ninety. The clothes they wore were of Irish manufacture. The old women spun the wool into yarn, and then it was sent to the weaver and was made into woollen clothing by a hand loom.
