School: Caitrín Naomhtha, Eachdhruim (roll number 14423)
- Location:
- Eachroim, Co. na Gaillimhe
- Teacher: Pádraig Ó Ceocháin
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- (continued from previous page)kinds of food on certain feast days. On Shrove Tuesday, the people ate pancakes with rings in them, for supper.About fifty years ago tea was first used in this locality. Before cups were common, little bowls without handles were used.(Annie Carroll, Fairfield)
- The food we have now is not like the food that the people had in the olden times.For their breakfast, they would have potatoes, and milk. On Sundays they had oaten meal bread, wet with water, and sometimes buttermilk.At dinner-hour, they(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Betty Carthy
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Garraí an Átháin, Co. na Gaillimhe