School: Cor Bealaigh
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- Corbally, Co. Sligo
- Teacher: Pádhraic Ó Marcacháin
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- Poteen
Long ago poteen was carried on very extensively. This is how it was made The people got a tinker to make a tin still, a worm, and a cap.
After the people cut the barley they would thresh it with a flail and put a bag of the grain in a hole. After it been a week in the hole they would take it up and scatter it one a floor for forty eight hours. Then they would take it up and and put it in a barrel and leave it there about three days. They would put it in the still along with treakle and brew it until it would be poteen.
My great-grandfather was a great poteen-maker. One night he was going to Enniscrone with a five gallon jar of poteen on his back, and when he was(continues on next page)