School: Radharc na Sionainne (roll number 16477)
- Location:
- Clooncah, Co. Roscommon
- Teacher: Nóirín Ní Uiginn
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0260, Page 134
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- (continued from previous page)"Roasted spuds and I'd dip them in the salt and that was my dinner. And be me sowkins when I'd get home at night I'd be able to ate a good sized skillet of stirabout and a good mug of sourins."
Sourins was oatmeal steeped in water.
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- Informant
- Mrs Connor
- Gender
- Female
- Age
- 50
- Address
- Clooncah, Co. Roscommon
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“Long ago people used to eat nettles.”
Long ago people used to eat nettles. They gathered the young green nettles and they took them off the stalk. They put them down in cold water and boiled them just like cabbage.
They are also boiled for young turkeys and mixed with meal. They make the bone.
