School: Tir na bPoll (C.) (roll number 15645)

Location:
Teernaboul, Co. Kerry
Teacher:
Máighréad Ní Dhonchadha
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0454, Page 376

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    kept shuffling it while it was being baked. Visitors would take a quarter of Bocstí and a mug of Maothar.
    Maothar (Beastings) The milk of the newly calved cow of the second and third rounds was never kept for butter-making. It was boiled with a little water and salt till it curdled. It was taken round to the poor people of the district. The vessel in which it was delivered was never returned empty. An egg or a grain of salt was always put into it.
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