School: Tráigh Omna (roll number 13092)

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1. The Year of the Big Snow

   

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   The morning in this part of the West Cork was clear and sunny. When the snow came it went into the smallest crevices, keyholes, windows, joints of the doors.
   It fell in February and some of it did not melt until July.

   

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2. Visitors in the Old Times

   

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   When people went visiting in the country about sixty years ago instead of tea they were given a mixture of oatmeal and cream or milk. The cream or milk was poured over the raw meal, and this was a great treat for young and old. This was called Ríbiúin. Yellow meal cake was also used and in the Famine Years was the common food of people in this locality. The Yellow Meal was boiled in fresh buttermilk or with spring water. It was then allowed to cool and made into scones, and fried on a frying-pan.

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   Informant

   Ellen Mc Carthy

   Gender

   Female

   Age

   87

   Address

   Skibbereen, Co. Cork