School: An Ghráinseach
- Location:
- Gransha More, Co. Monaghan
- Teacher: E. Nic Uaid
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- (continued from previous page)towards the fire a few times until it is baked.
Another great food used then was potato bread. About ten large potatoes were peeled and bruised very fine on the table. Then a little flour is mixed with them and a very small drop of buttermilk put through it. It is then baked on a pan on the fire.
Sowens are made of oat meal and buttermilk. The oatmeal is steeped in buttermilk for a few days. Then more buttermilk is boiled and the oatmeal is taken out of the buttermilk and put on the boiling buttermilk and made like porridge.
- Long ago many games were played, some the same and some different from nowadays. Football, handball and cards were the principal games. Robert Scholes of Innishammon was a great(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Patsy Meehan
- Address
- Inishammon, Co. Monaghan
