School: Baile an Daingin (C.) (roll number 4828)
- Location:
- Ballindine, Co. Mayo
- Teacher: Máire de Staic
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0096, Page 666
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- Nanette Waldron
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Ballindine, Co. Mayo
- Informant
- Michael Costello
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- c. 65
- Address
- Esker South, Co. Mayo
- In older times they had no flour so the people had to use wheaten bread baked on a griddle. If they had visitors they would make boxty of potatoes scraped into a very fine pulp and mixed with wheaten flour and baked between two cabbage leaved beside the fire.
- A bake of oaten meal bread on a griddle was what the men took going to the bog and the children going to school.
