School: Mainistir Ó dTórna
- Location:
- Abbeydorney, Co. Kerry
- Teacher: Mícheál Ó Ríoghbhardáin
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0413, Page 125
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- (continued from previous page)day the people used to make a cake of wheaten flour, just as a person nowadays would make a currant cake.
I have heard what I have just written from a person who saw it all and remembers it.
Nowadays the kinds of bread used most commonly are mixed bread, flour bread, and baker's bread commonly known as white bread and currant bread for Christmas and the stations, when the priest goes round to the farmers houses to say Mass, hear confessions and administer the sacrament of Holy Communion to the people of the district around and who cannot leave their homes because of bad health.
- There is hardly any of the old customs(continues on next page)
- Collector
- John Linehan
- Gender
- Male
- Informant
- Mrs Dowling
- Gender
- Female
- Age
- 70
- Address
- Boherroe, Co. Kerry
