School: Gort na Díogha (roll number 15587)
- Location:
- Gort na dTíobh Thiar, Co. na Gaillimhe
- Teachers: Séamus Ó Dochartaigh Bean Uí Dhochartaigh
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0016, Page 141
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- Johnny used to put down sugar and water in a cannin and when is was boiled he would thicken it and roll it on the hearthstone. He had red paint and he would put a few stripes of this through the sugar stick. It was just as good as any sugar stick to-day.
His wife Biddy used to bring it to the market to seel it, and get drunk. When she would want to sell it she would take up a piece and say, "Bigger one, longer one, stronger one, thicker one.
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- Informant
- Thomas Brennan
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 91
- Address
- Cnoc Mhic Scaithil, Co. na Gaillimhe
