School: Virginia (B)
- Location:
- Virginia, Co. Cavan
- Teacher: E. O' Reilly
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 1000, Page 263
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- Long ago when people would be travelling they used to have a bag on their backs and a cake of griddle bread in it. When the people would get hungry on their journey they would eat some of the cake.
- Collector
- Patrick Brady
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Virginia, Co. Cavan
- Informant
- Bernard Brady
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Virginia, Co. Cavan
- In big farm houses enough bread was baked on one day that would do the week. A cross was made on a cake by marking it with a knife.
