Scoil: Kilmorgan (uimhir rolla 12444)

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   “About seventy years ago the people of this neighbourhood never used flour or tea.”

   

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   (ar lean ón leathanach roimhe)

   It consisted of potatoes and eggs. They put the potatoes into a basket and left it in the middle of the floor. All the family sat around this basket and ate the potatoes out of it. When they came in from work in the evenings they ate their supper. For this meal they ate a piece of an oaten cake and new milk. They went to bed very early and they always arose before daybreak. Their motto was, "To bed with the dark and up with the lark."
   They made the oaten cakes out of oaten meal. They baked them before the fire on a grid iron. It took a long time to bake these cakes, and they had to be turned several times. When flour and tea was introduced into this district the old people did not like them at all and they never used them. They always said

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