School: Virginia (B)
- Location:
- Virginia, Co. Cavan
- Teacher: E. O' Reilly
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- (continued from previous page)because they could not afford to buy it.
- Long ago the people used to eat nettles as the vegetable for the dinner. When the people would get a pound of meat they would salt it to keep it fresh so that it would last them a long time. The way oaten bread was made long ago was: oaten meal was steeped in a
basin of water in the morning and left there for three hours. The wet meal was then mixed with flour and flattened out with a bottle and put in front of the fire till it is baked. - Collector
- Lulu Goldrick
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Virginia, Co. Cavan
- Informant
- Hughie Goldrick
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Virginia, Co. Cavan
