School: Naomh Pádraig, Carrowmena (roll number 16787)
- Location:
- Carrowmenagh, Co. Donegal
- Teacher: Pádraig S. Ó Cathain
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 1118, Page 413
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- A Prayer.
When the old people saw the new moon they said,
"God sees the new moon
The new moon sees me,
Good bless the new moon
And God bless me,"
- Collector
- Daniel Mac Gettigan
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Carrowmenagh, Co. Donegal
- Informant
- Miss Sarah Mac Gettigan
- Gender
- Female
- Age
- 63
- Address
- Carrowmenagh, Co. Donegal
- Bread
The kind of bread the old people made in our district was oatmeal bread, boxty-bread and potato-bread. Some of the bread was made from oats grown locally. The people in our district used querns which consisted of two flat stones with a hole in the lower one. The grain was put into the hole and ground by the other stone.
The bread people used was boxty-bread, potato-bread and oatmeal-bread. Boxty-bread was made from potatoes, flour, milk, soda(continues on next page)
