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School: An Gleanntán, Lombardstown

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Glantane, Co. Cork
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Tomás Ó Colmáin
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0363, Page 039

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    My Aunt told me that in the Famine Times the people used to eat coarse Indian meal boiled, with thick milk, for their breakfast. For their dinner they would have meal and milk and sometimes they might have rye bread and milk and perhaps for their supper they would have a cake made of yellow meal.
    The people were stronger and healthier in those times than now because they used to eat what the land produced.
    There was no tea in those times. The people could not buy it. One pound of tea would cost five shillings then. The people
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    History Edit
    Topics
    1. time
      1. historical periods by name (~25)
        1. the great famine (~4,013)
    Language
    English
    Collector
    Séarlait Ní Chárthaig
    Gender
    Female
    Address
    Skarragh, Co. Cork
    Informant
    Mrs O Callaghan
    Gender
    Female
    Age
    66
    Address
    Skarragh, Co. Cork