School: Naomh Pádraig, Carn Domhnaigh (roll number 14359)
- Location:
- Carndonagh, Co. Donegal
- Teacher: Eoghan Ó Gallchobhair
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 1115, Page 37
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- (continued from previous page)what to do with the leaves he took them out and spread them on the bread. They soon found out how to use it but as it cost 12/6 per pound only the rich people could buy it On Easter Sunday there was a certain custom of eating eggs and in fact it is still practised in some places The kind of rich cake which is eaten to-day was not eaten long ago but instead they ate hard barley-cake. Our forefathers never ate anything before retiring as it was considered bad for the sleep.
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- Collector
- Francis Toland
- Gender
- Female
- Informant
- Mrs Francis Toland
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Carndonagh, Co. Donegal
