School: Manulla (roll number 14544)
- Location:
- Manulla, Co. Mayo
- Teacher: Seán Mac an Adhastair
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0095, Page 267
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- (continued from previous page)potatoes and mixed them. The mixture was then put on the pan. For the supper roasted potatoes with salt and buttermilk were sometimes used. Cally was often eaten before going to bed. It was made from mashed potatoes, milk and onions mixed together. In every house there was a pounder for pounding the boiled potatoes, so as to make Cally. Cally was eaten with butter when butter was to be got. Potatoes were usually placed on a skib on the table. Children used to sit on stools around a skib of potatoes, which was placed on the floor. The eating vessels were made from wood, so also were the spoons.
- Collector
- Paddy Kehir
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Manulla, Co. Mayo
- Informant
- John Kehir
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 50
- Address
- Manulla, Co. Mayo
