School: Bundoracha (roll number 14331)
- Location:
- Bundorragha, Co. Mayo
- Teacher: Siúbhán Bean Uí Bhúrca
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- (continued from previous page)Sometimes the table was placed by the wall and sometimes it would be place in the middle of the floor. There were many kinds of bread used, oaten bread, wholemeal bread, flower bread, potatoe bread, and boxty-bread. Meat was often used, the people bought a little pig and fed him until he would be a big pig and then they (would) killed him and eat him. On Easter Sunday there was a number of eggs used. On Good Friday there was number(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Mairéad De Búrca
- Gender
- Female
- Informant
- Máire Bean Uí Bhúrca
- Gender
- Female
- Age
- 50
- Address
- Tawnyinlough, Co. Mayo