School: Louth (C.) (roll number 3252)
- Location:
- Lú, Co. Lú
- Teacher: M. Ní Chasaide
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0665, Page 202
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- Long ago a lot of marriages would be celebrated before Shrove Tuesday and Lent.
It is a custom to make pancakes and to have them for the tea in the evening, and on that evening people give pancake seive to other people, they call them in to the kitchen to give them a pancake and when they get them in they would have a saucer of polish and sutt wet and when the person would be eating the pancake, they would blacken their faces all, and that is called pancake seive. On Ash Wednesday when people were not allowed to eat anything they had to eat gruel with nettles in it.
- Collector
- Sheela Malone
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Tulaigh Chatháin, Co. Lú
