School: Carraigíní (roll number 11693)
- Location:
- Carrigans Lower, Co. Sligo
- Teacher: Thos. Mc Gettrick
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- (continued from previous page)and get drunk and did not come home untill they were brought home.
- Boxty was made from potatoes and wheaten flour.
- Collector
- Bridie Brennan
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Carrigans Lower, Co. Sligo
- In olden times there were no cups or plates. They used to make mugs out of "treacle boxes" and put little handles in them. They used wooden plates There were no fish used. One herring would supply four on five of a family.
