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School: Killasnett (roll number 9533)

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Curraghfore, Co. Leitrim
Teacher:
Eoghan Mac Oirealla
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0192, Page 157

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    In olden times the people grew their own oats and brought it to the mill and ground it ground and made int oatenmeal and made oaten bread of it. The put 6 or 4 lbs of meal in a basin and a small bit of margarine or lard and knead it up Sometimes it would be put on a thing called a griddle and baked in ront of the fire. The people long ago used Boxly[?] the grated up potatoes and put it in a bag and squeeze the water off it. It was made into Dumplings.
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    History Edit
    Topics
    1. products
      1. food products (~3,601)
        1. bread (~2,063)
    Language
    English
    Collector
    Rose Galligan
    Gender
    Female
    Address
    Lurganboy, Co. Leitrim
    Informant
    Mrs Gault
    Gender
    Female
    Age
    98
    Address
    Ballyglass, Co. Leitrim