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School: Adoon (roll number 11152)

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Adoon, Co. Leitrim
Teacher:
Charles Flynn
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0222, Page 343

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    vegetables. On Easter Sunday they had eggs for the breakfast, and dinner. On Hallowen they had boxty, and they always killed a fowl also. The boxty was put into a pot, and boiled with water, and when it was taken up, and put on two big plates on the table, and they had sweet milk, and sometimes they had butter-milk.
    There was no tea used in olden times, and the vessels they took the milk out of were porringers and noggins.
    Transcribed by a member of our volunteer transcription project.
    History Edit
    Topics
    1. products
      1. food products (~3,601)
    Language
    English
    Collector
    Mary Alice Mc Gowan
    Gender
    Female
    Address
    Edergole, Co. Leitrim