School: Gort na Gaoithe (roll number 14218)
- Location:
- Tóin le Gaoith, Co. na Gaillimhe
- Teacher: M. Ó Lócháin
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- Potatoes were often used instead of starch in olden times. The potatoes were boiled and then the skin taken off them and what was under the skin was scraped off and put down in a pot on the fire to boil again. When it is boiled it is taken up and left to cool and then the articals are starched.
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- Collector
- Mary Tyrell
- Gender
- Female
- Age
- 13
- Address
- Gannód, Co. na Gaillimhe
- Informant
- Nora Tyrell
- Relation
- Unknown
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Gannód, Co. na Gaillimhe