School: Doire Liath (roll number 14301)
- Location:
- Derrylea, Co. Mayo
- Teacher: Seosamh Ó Cuanaigh
Archival Reference
The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0107, Page 090
Image and data © National Folklore Collection, UCD.
See copyright details.
Download
Open data
Available under Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)
- XML School: Doire Liath
- XML Page 090
- XML (no title)
Note: We will soon deprecate our XML Application Programming Interface and a new, comprehensive JSON API will be made available. Keep an eye on our website for further details.
On this page
(no title)
“Long ago the people lived in a more homely way than nowadays.”
Long ago the people lived in a more homely way than nowadays.
They made oaten cakes potato cakes and boxty cakes.
They had small handmills which they made meal with. When they were making oatmeal cakes they mixed the meal with water and they made it into a cake.
Then they set it before the fire to bake.
The cake was supported by a little stand with three legs two in front and one behind. They also make pancakes on St. Brigid's night.
Some people baked bread on two leaves of cabbage, one under the cake and the other over it. When the leaves were burned two more were put in their places. Boxty bread was made of raw(continues on next page)
- Collector
- P. Kerins
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Corraun, Co. Mayo
- Informant
- Catherine Kearns
- Gender
- Female
- Age
- 82