School: Ardlow
- Location:
- Ardlow, Co. Cavan
- Teacher: S. Mac Síomain
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 1004, Page 133
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- A Story about the "Good People."
In the townland of Cloughbally Lower - parish of Mullagh Co Cavan, barony of Castlerahan lived a family of the name of Costello (Cush-hill-oe) pronounced locally. One Hallow Eve, in the early eighties when the man of the house and his helpers came in from the field where they were digging the potatoes they sat down to dinner. A substantial dish of "colcannon" was placed on a low table on the centre of the floor. On top of the colcannon was a hole into which was placed a large roll of butter. The men seated on stools spaced themselves round the table and each taking up a spoon inserted it in the colcannon and half immersed it in the bowl of liquid butter before swallowing it. This process was repeated until all were filled to satiety.
When the men returned to their work in the fields the good house-wife set about preparing an appetising supper. Portion of the boiled potatoes not needed for dinner were bruised and mixed with flour, flavoured with salt, wetted with milk and shaped into cakes. These were baked on the pan and left on a dish to cool. These cakes were well soaked in butter which was spread on them while still hot.
On this evening the men arrived home earlier(continues on next page)
- Collector
- John Fitzsimmons
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Mullagh, Co. Cavan
- Informant
- Patrick Fitzsimmons
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 54
- Address
- Rosehill, Co. Cavan
