School: Inis Arcáin, Dún na Séad (roll number 14065)
- Location:
- Dhá Ghníomh, Co. Chorcaí
- Teacher: Risteárd Mac Carrthaigh
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0295, Page 227
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- (continued from previous page)night or any night afterwards and the man's own shoes were brought back that night.
- The bread of the old people.Long ago the old people made their own brown flour out of wheat which they ground in mills called querns. The potatoes were the principal food of the people at that time. They made starch from the potatoes by grating them and putting them into a piece of cloth then the cloth was squeezed and the water that came out of them was left in a dish for about an hour. At the end of an hour all the starch would be after sinking to the bottom and could be removed with a spoon and dried. Then out of the grated potatoes stampies would be made. This was made(continues on next page)
