School: Knockjames
- Location:
- Knockjames, Co. an Chláir
- Teacher: (ní thugtar ainm)
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Food in olden times.
25 th.of April ,1938.
Long ago the people used to eat only two meals aday.For the breakfast they used to eat potatoes and for the dinner they used to eat engine meal.Sometimes they used to grate raw potatoes ,and squeese the water out of them ,and then bake them on a griddle ,and eat them.The people used to say that the men that time were alot stronger than now.Sometimes they used to eat a potatoe cake .First of all they would boil they potatoes in a(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Patrick Leamy
- Gender
- Male
- Informant
- Mr James Leamy
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Knockjames, Co. an Chláir
