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1. Food in Olden Times (continued)

   

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   milk in the evening long ago. Tea was almost unknown in olden times. They ate very little long ago. The people now will not eat the things that they did long ago.

   

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2. Local Ruins

   

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   Local Ruins Written by Julia Gilligan, Dromone, 16th March 1938 There is an old ruined castle in the school district. The Monks lived in it long ago. I do not know built it. It is situated in the parish of Moylough in the Barony of Fore and in County Meath. It was built about three hundred years ago. It was besieged by Cromwell in 1649. There is a ruined church in this district. It is situated in Loughcrew Blessed Oliver Plunkett built it years ago. There are only the ruins of it to be seen now. Cromwell placed his cannon on the hill of the Deer Park and knocked the castle of Moylough. The old ruins of the Castle of Moylough stands on the hill about four miles to the south of Oldcastle, in the Barony of Fore, County of Meath. They are about thirty or forty feet in

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   Topics

   1. activities
      1. economic activities
         1. trade
            1. buying and selling (~3,622)

   Language

   English

   Collector

   Julia Gilligan

   Gender

   Female

   Address

   Drumone, Co. Meath