School: Manorvaughan (roll number 10507)
- Location:
- Rawros, Co. Donegal
- Teacher: Mary E. Alcorn
Archival Reference
The Schools’ Collection, Volume 1078, Page 140
Image and data © National Folklore Collection, UCD.
See copyright details.
DownloadOpen data
Available under Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)
- XML School: Manorvaughan
- XML Page 140
- XML “Food of the People”
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
- The chief food of the people longago was, bread made of oat meal and baked on a griddle, whey also had poridge, plenty of eggs and other things. They also made boxty bread out of raw potatoes grated down, then they were put in a cloth and the water taken out of them.They had not much flour but whey baked the boxty with dry potatoe startch. They made potatoe bread out of boiled potatoes crushed with a fork and baked with flour and milk.The starch which they made the boxty bread with was the dry stuff which is on the potatoes when the skin is taken off them.
- Collector
- Michael Boyce
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Tirloughan, Co. Donegal
- Informant
- Thomas Boyce
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 59
- Address
- Tirloughan, Co. Donegal
