School: Loughanvally (roll number 8363)
- Location:
- Loughanavally, Co. Westmeath
- Teacher: Mrs. O'Connor
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0742, Page 334
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- (continued from previous page)They seldom used a table.
Their bread was oatmeal bread baked in the griosach (ashes) on the griddle which was a flat iron. Sometimes they put a handful of flour into a pot of porridge and thickened it and baked it in a similar way.
- Long ago people seldom used meat, unless rabbits or hares or wild fowl which they would trap. They made soup of these or roasted them on a spit over the fire. They never used vegetables. They were very fond of flummery stampie and potatoe cake. When the meal was ground they would ask the miller for a little bag of "seeds" or husks of corn. They would put a handful of husks in a crock and put water on it. They would leave it there for ten days and about the fourth day they would put a teaspoon or some "tinny" article into it to sour it. When it was thick after the tenth day they would let(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Mairéad Mach Manus
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Ballynacarrow, Co. Westmeath
- Informant
- Thomas Mac Manus
- Relation
- Parent
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 50
- Address
- Ballynacarrow, Co. Westmeath
