School: Cluain Eich (roll number 9942)
- Location:
- Clooneagh, Co. Leitrim
- Teacher: Sr. Ó Donnabhair
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0219, Page 298
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- (continued from previous page)and sometimes oat-meal flummery and for the dinner they would have potatoes, salt and buttermilk and for supper they would have stirabout. They had no table but they used to sit beside a basket on the middle of the floor. Sometimes a mother would take a basket of potatoes and throw them on the table and she would say "Hold out your arms and do not let the potatoes fall."
- One time, a woman made flummery for the dinner and sent her son to the bog with some to the husband. The boy got hungry on the way and he ate the flummery and threw it up again. He went to the bog with it and when he gave it to his father he said it was not nice. The boy said "O Dad, it is alright because I ate it and vomited it again into the dish."(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Jennie Shanley
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Clooncolry, Co. Leitrim
- Informant
- Mrs M. Shanley
- Gender
- Female
- Age
- 65
- Occupation
- Farmer's wife
- Address
- Clooncolry, Co. Leitrim
