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School: Kilavoggy (roll number 2178)

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Killavoggy, Co. Leitrim
Teacher:
Seán de Faoite
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  1. A Local Landlord (continued)

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    In olden times people had three meals a day. The breakfast, the dinner and the evening meal. When the people of the house got up in the morning they put down a pot of potatoes and go out and work until they were boiled. They had potatoes for the breakfast and sturnabout(?) for the dinner and sat-meal bread and butter-milk for the evening meal. In olden times the people had no tables. They had a plank resting on two stones along the wall and they ate their meals beside this. The people seldom got any tea or sugar and then they got it they had [.]
    He was born in England. He put a man named O'Brien and his wife and family out of their house when they would not pay him the rent. They had to sleep on the roadside one night. He was the cause of many people dying. They died with hunger and cold. Montgomery is dead now.
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  2. Food in Olden Times

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    In olden times people had three meals a day. The breakfast, the dinner and the evening meal. When the people of the house got up in the morning they put down a pot of potatoes and go out and work until they were boiled. They had potatoes for the breakfast and sturnabout for the dinner and oat-meal bread and butter-milk for the evening meal. In olden times the people had no tables. They had a plank resting on two stones along the wall and they ate their meals beside this. The people seldom got any tea or sugar and then they got it they had
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    Topics
    1. products
      1. food products (~3,601)
    Language
    English
    Collector
    Alice Dolan
    Gender
    Female
    Age
    15
    Address
    Garvagh, Co. Leitrim
    Informant
    James Dolan
    Relation
    Parent
    Gender
    Male
    Age
    68
    Address
    Garvagh, Co. Leitrim