School: Kilcullen (B.)
- Location:
- Kilcullen, Co. Kildare
- Teacher: Pádraig Ó Broin
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0776D, Page 15_004
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- (continued from previous page)it with flour, bread-soda and buttermilk to wet it. It is then put on a griddle left there until it is ready.
Potatoe cake is made in much the same way only the potatoes are boiled and the cake is put in the "bacus" with red cinders on and beneath the socalled oven.
The cake used to be made three times a week Monday, Wednesday, and friday.
Buying & selling
In Galway it was and is yet frequent to "barter" the goods. For example if a farmer gave another a load of wheat he would expect a pig or a sheep in return or if a man(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Peadar O Díosca
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Halverstown, Co. Kildare
