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School: Cill Fhínghín (roll number 16222)

Location:
Killeeneen More, Co. Galway
Teacher:
Séamus Ó Ceallaigh
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0033, Page 0346

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  1. Boxty (continued)

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    together then. When it is in the shape of a cake it is cut up in "ceathramha". Then it is put down in a heated griddle. There must be a good fire under it so that it is well baked. It has to be baking for a half an hour or less.
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  2. A Cure for a Cough

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    When a person has a cold and a cough it can be cured easily. First to get a saucepan and to fill it with buttermilk and to boil it. The butter milk is to be left boiling for an hour. When it is boiled a little new milk is put with the boiled milk and it should be drank. The time to drink it is when you would be going to bed every night. The boiled milk is not much good in the morning or in any other time of the day.
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    Topics
    1. activities
      1. medical practice
        1. folk medicine (~11,815)
          1. medicine for human sicknesses
            1. cough (~30)
    2. products
      1. food products (~3,601)
    Language
    English
    Collector
    Michael Costello
    Gender
    Male
    Address
    Kilcolgan, Co. Galway
    Informant
    Martin Linnane
    Gender
    Male
    Address
    Kilcolgan, Co. Galway