School: Kilmurry
- Location:
- Cill Mhuire, Co. Uíbh Fhailí
- Teacher: Annraoi de Búrca
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0802, Page 145
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- (continued from previous page)nothing till o'clock in the day. The food they used was bread without butter and tea without milk. They used to eat two meals a day. It was called the "black fast".
- Long ago bread was made from oaten meal. The meal was wetted with cold water but nothing else was put in it. It was then baked on a griddle. It took the same time to bake as a flour cake.
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- Collector
- Tom Scally
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 12
- Informant
- Joseph Scally
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 53
- Address
- Baile Thaidhg Beag, Co. Uíbh Fhailí
- There was meat used in olden times but there was not as much used as there is at(continues on next page)
