School: Barrlinn
- Location:
- Inchinarihen, Co. Cork
- Teacher: Máire Ní Chruadhlaoich
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0282, Page 156
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- Long ago the people used to make cakes of wheat and of yellow-meal. The cakes were mixed with buttermilk, And they were baked in a bastible on turf fires. The griosac or red ashes was put on the cover. The people used to eat a lot of oatmeal. Very often they used to eat raw oatmeal and milk mixed and they used call it Riobun.
This was a very healthy feed.
But it would make people pale in the face, because the raw oatmeal soaks the blood. People who have very red faces eat Riobun on purpose in order to get pale without getting unhealthy.
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- Denis O Leary
- Gender
- Male
