School: Baile Gaedhaelach (C.)
- Location:
- Irishtown, Co. Mayo
- Teacher: Mrs Mc Manus
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- People used to make bread from oats ground into meal. It is only a few years ago since flour was made locally. People remember grind-stones being used.
The different kinds of bread were boxty-bread, potato-cake, and Oatmeal bread. There was also pancaked used baked between two leaves of cabbage. The way to make Boxty-bread was to scrape raw potatoes and put them in a dish with boiled ones. Then make it up like a potato-cake and bake it in a pan.
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- Mary Kate Walsh
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Doonmacreena, Co. Mayo
- Informant
- Mrs Mary Kilgarriff
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Doonmacreena, Co. Mayo