School: Doirín na nDamh (roll number 5348)

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   “The places where I live is called Direenacopple.”

   

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   part of our farm that the horses were put into the wood so the wood was called Doire-an chapaill.

   

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   “The people long ago used to live in a different way from what we do now.”

   

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   The people long ago used to live in a different way from what we do now. The farms were not big, but still, they used to till every bit of land they could. They lived on their own home grown food, and the people along the sea shore lived generally on fish, oatmeal and potatoes. They ground their own oats into oatmeal with two stones called querns. They spun their own clothes out of wool and flax. There were very few cars or roads, and the people used to draw all the loads on their backs. There were no oil lamps then but rushes steeped in fat and bogdeal splinters were used instead. In those days, the men's feet were as tanned from being barefoot that they could walk on furze. MaUREEN sHEA

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   Topics

   1. time
      1. historical periods by name (~25)
         1. the great famine (~4,013)

   Language

   English

   Collector

   Maureen Shea

   Gender

   Female