School: Adare Convent (roll number 9296)

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1. Bread (continued)

   

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   potato cake as well. Sometimes they made the bread with water and milk. The people used to cut the cake in four squares and put another mark on each square. The bread was baked in an oven or bastable or on a griddle. It was baked hanging from a crane over the fire.

   B. Fitzgerald.
   From his grandfather James Fitzgerald, Clorane. (84 yrs)

   

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2. The Story of a Shed

   

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   The Story of a Shed. In the Demesne are the remains of an old cow-shed generally known as Gavin's shed. About ten years ago a man was coming home from a dance at 1 o'clock and he climbed the wall at the back of the shed so as to make the journey shorter. As he passed the door of the shed he got a stroke of a club in

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   Language

   English

   Collector

   Pauline Mc Carthy

   Gender

   Female

   Address

   Adare, Co. Limerick

   Informant

   Kate Houlihan

   Relation

   Relative (other than parent or grandparent)

   Gender

   Female

   Age

   93

   Address

   Adare, Co. Limerick