School: Killeen, Granard (roll number 13752)
- Location:
- Killeen, Co. Longford
- Teacher: S. Ó Duibhgeanáin
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kept on the 17th March.
There is a novena held to St. Patrick each evening from the 1st March to the 17th March each evening.My Uncel named Thomas Kearney told me this information and he is 41 years.
Michael Cunningham, Toneywarden Lisryan.
- 468Food in olden times.
The people used to eat three meals per day long ago. They used to work before the breakfast and the breakfast was served at 11 o'clock. The breakfast they used to eat was oaten porridge.
The dinner was served at one o'clock and it consisted of potatoes and cabbage. Sometimes bacon was eaten. The people used to sit around a basket on the centre of the floor. The basket used to be left on the pot. The food that used to be eaten in the evening was oaten bread and buttermilk.
Oaten bread was made on(continues on next page) - Collector
- Harry Reynolds
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Killeen, Co. Longford
