School: Fleasgach (roll number 15842)

Location:
Flaskagh More, Co. Galway
Teacher:
Ss. Ó Maonaigh
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    on boxty and porridge. In the morning when they would be going out to their work they had porridge and milk. Then they worked a few hours, when they came in they had their dinner which consisted of potatoes and salt and milk. When they came in the evening they had their supper of stirabout. Some of the people used to make potato-cake. They used to boil the potatoes and peel them then they used to mix them with flour. When it was baked they called it potato-cake.
    Writer: Mary Rafter
    Clougher Upper
    Ballinlough
    Co Roscommon.
    Teller: Matthew Raftery
    Clougher Upper
    Ballinlough
    Co Roscommon
    Transcribed by a member of our volunteer transcription project.
    Topics
    1. products
      1. food products (~3,601)
    Language
    English
    Collector
    Mary Raftery
    Gender
    Female
    Address
    Clogher Upper, Co. Roscommon
    Informant
    Matthew Raftery
    Relation
    Unknown
    Gender
    Male
    Address
    Clogher Upper, Co. Roscommon