School: Clochar na Trócaire, Ceann tSáile

Location:
Kinsale, Co. Cork
Teacher:
An tSr. Úna
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    professed to be an expert in the cooking of stirabout. He used to go around to the boilers where bubbled a mess of Indian meal scarcely clean enough for pigs for foreign beetles and other such dirt could be seen in it[?]- stirred the mixture with the ferrule of his walking stick, and so pronounced it either "too [?] or thick enough" as the case might be.
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