School: Kerrykeel (roll number 6849)

Location:
Carrowkeel, Co. Donegal
Teacher:
Séamus Mac Gabhann
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  1. Boxty bread is still sometimes made.
    "Sowens" still sometimes made.
    Blood puddings. People in the district sometimes kill a cow and salt it to have meat for their own use. The meat is sometimes dried and smoked and hung up to the rafters and used as required.
    When the animal is killed the blood is sometimes saved and used in the making of blood puddings.
    No one as far as I can find here ever heard of horehound tea.
    There is a story told that a ship was wrecked near the coast. Chests of tea which formed part of the ship's cargo were washed ashore. The chests were found by the natives who took them home, who, the story goes, boiled the tea in a pot, threw the liquid out and ate the leaves.
    My own grandfather often told me that he remembered the time when people only got tea three times in the year - at Easter
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    Transcribed by a member of our volunteer transcription project.
    Language
    English
    Collector
    Séamus Mac Gabhann
    Gender
    Male
    Occupation
    Oide\
    Informant
    Cormac Logue
    Gender
    Male
    Age
    74
    Address
    Ranny, Co. Donegal