School: Clochar na Trócaire, Meathas Truim (roll number 13313)
- Location:
- Edgeworthstown, Co. Longford
- Teacher: An tSiúr Bernard
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“Once upon a time a man named Paddy Mc Loughin was setting trees in Ardagh...”
(continued from previous page)after a week the fairies came and told him that if he got anything they wanted out of the fort they would never touch them again. So he got everything and they never touched him ever again.
- The people in Ireland eat very coarse food. Potatoes were their principal food. Their meals were never taken at regular times. People often worked on until 12 o'clock in the day without having any breakfast. Potatoes and buttermilk was often their breakfast they had rough oaten porridge for dinner, milk was drunk but nearly always buttermilk. The table they used was placed on the centre of the floor. The family sat round their dinner of potatoes Salt and buttermilk. They used oaten(continues on next page)
