School: Benbawn
- Location:
- Binbane, Co. Cavan
- Teacher: M. Gillespie
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 1019, Page 161
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- (continued from previous page)growing in the old graveyard. There are quite a number of old tombs and crosses. Some of the crosses are ornamented with different designs. These crosses are made of wood.
Some people bury in other graveyards in which their relations are buried, even though these graveyards are quite a distance away from them.
There are no graveyards, in this district that I know off in which unbaptized children are buried in.
- The different kinds of bread eaten long ago, were potato-bread, oaten-bread, mixed-bread, boxty-bread and pancakes. The potato-bread was made with boiled potatoes, bruised, and mixed with flour, and formed into a cake, and spread out and cut into quarters and baked on a shallow pan or griddle. Oaten-bread was made with oat-meal mixed with lukewarm water. The lukewarm water was used to make the meal stick together. It was(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Leslie Pogue
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Tonymacgilduff, Co. Cavan
