School: Ballinacliffy
- Location:
- Ballynacliffy, Co. Westmeath
- Teacher: A. Ní Dhubhthaigh
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0747, Page 211
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- (continued from previous page)a pot of Potatoes for supper. They used to have pancakes baked for Shrove Tuesday and a pot of callcannon for their supper on Chistmas night.
- All the houses long ago were thatched and sometimes they were covered (which) with scraws. The thatch was got from the reeds of the lake. There was always a bed in the kitchen called a settle bed shaped like a box and it could be closed up in the daytime. The fire-place was always in the middle(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Paddy Rushe
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 11
- Informant
- Michael Elliott
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 60
