School: Leac Snámha (B.) (roll number 10957)
- Location:
- Lixnaw, Co. Kerry
- Teacher: Dáithí. B. Ó Duilleáin
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- (continued from previous page)on a flag of stone and the people used to grind the grain with the quern against the flag. A quern may be seen in Mrs Connell's house of Ballinageragh at the present day.
Another kind of bread that the people used to eat long ago was potato-cake. The first thing the people used to do was to get potatoes and boil them. Then when they would be boiled they would be taken up and peeled and made fine. Then flour would be got and soda and salt would be mixed up with it. Then the flour would be wet with sour milk and the fine potatoes would be mixed up with it and then both things would be kneaded up together and put down on an oven to bake. It would be left down baking for about half-an-hour and then taken up and eaten hot with thick milk.(continues on next page)- Collector
- John O' Brien
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Ballynageragh, Co. Kerry
- Informant
- Maurice Whelan
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 71
- Address
- Ballynageragh, Co. Kerry