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School: Rathkenny (roll number 15483)

Location:
Rathkenny, Co. Meath
Teacher:
Tomás Mac Cárthaigh
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0714, Page 188

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    provided, and the people brought home the spoons with them to make sure of one for the day porridge was provided. So Mr. Morris had to make a rule that each person had to bring a spoon of his own. The number of people that came kept increasing and to provide sufficient Mr Morris had the potatoes boiled in a huge cistern in the yard and to make cálceanann out of them he caused a mule to be driven up and down the cistern to mash the potatoes into cálceanann. The saying still remains with the people. "She can make calceanán as good as Morris's mule."
    Transcribed by a member of our volunteer transcription project.
    History Edit
    Topics
    1. time
      1. historical periods by name (~25)
        1. the great famine (~4,013)
    Language
    English
    Collector
    Joan Carty
    Gender
    Female
    Address
    Rathkenny, Co. Meath
    Informant
    Patrick Powderly
    Gender
    Male
    Age
    73
    Address
    Rathkenny, Co. Meath