School: Eanach Dubh (C.) (roll number 13657)
- Location:
- Annaduff, Co. Leitrim
- Teacher: Mrs Mary Shanley
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- (continued from previous page)There is a story told about how the robin got its red breast. When the crown of thorns was being put on our Lord's head a robin went over and pulled a thorn out of His head and a drop of our Lord's blood fell on the Robin's Breast. That is why every robin has a red breast.
- Long ago the people had three meals a day - breakfast dinner and supper. They had Indian porridge for breakfast potatoes and milk for dinner and potatoes or porridge for supper. The people drank buttermilk.The people never sat around the table. They sat round a basket of potatoes on the middle of the floor. The table was along the side of the house but the people would not eat off it for fear they would dirty it.(continues on next page)
