School: Dromseanbhoth (B.)
- Location:
- Drumshanbo, Co. Leitrim
- Teacher: Seán Ó Dubhda
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0207, Page 414
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- (continued from previous page)they would wring it. Afar that they put a little flour on it and made cakes of it, then they got a pot of boiling water and put the cakes into it to boil. It was from the water that they wring out of the boxty that they made the starch. They used to leave the boxty water to settle for a while. Afar an hour they would skin the top of it, and the starch would be on the bottom.
- The women of the last century were dressed altogether differently to the women of the present day. The head dress only consisted of a white linen cap with borders. This cap went by the name of the(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Thomas Francis Whelan
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Drumgorman, Co. Leitrim
- Informant
- Mrs B. Whelan
- Relation
- Parent
- Gender
- Female
