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School: Bun

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Bun, Co. Offaly
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C. Ní Mhaolghuala
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0817, Page 103

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    The special food long ago was oatmeal, bread, porridge and potatoes. The people used to eat three times a day. They worked for about two hours before they would eat their breakfast. When they would be going to work they would they would bring their dinner with them. In the evening they would eat again. Long ago the people used to have wooden spoons and noggens to eat the
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    Topics
    1. products
      1. food products (~3,601)
    Language
    English
    Collector
    Bridget Guinan
    Gender
    Female