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School: Páirc Árd (High Park) (roll number 11431)

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Carrowgilhooly, Co. Sligo
Teacher:
Eoghan Ó Conaill
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0169, Page 359

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    herrings, cockles, peri-winkles, fish and shell-fish mostly. Also old people lived on oaten-meal bread, boxty, and potatoe-bread and that was near all the food they used to eat. Boxty was eaten mostly at November and potatoe-bread also around the same time. The old people long ago in Lent used not eat hardly any-thing because they would fast a lot in honour of Our Lord's fast of forty days. Old people now and not long ago would fast until dinner time on Good-Friday and then some of them would only drink black-tea for the day no bread or any-thing else either. The old people long ago would go out and do a lot out-side and inside in
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    History Edit
    Topics
    1. products
      1. food products (~3,601)
    Language
    English
    Collector
    Kathleen Diamond
    Gender
    Female
    Address
    Toberawnaun, Co. Sligo
    Informant
    Mr Diamond
    Gender
    Male
    Age
    52
    Address
    Toberawnaun, Co. Sligo
    Informant
    Mr Dooney
    Gender
    Male
    Age
    45
    Address
    Toberawnaun, Co. Sligo