School: Clochar Lughaidh, Coillte Mághach
- Location:
- Kiltimagh, Co. Mayo
- Teacher: -
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- (continued from previous page)then put into a basin along with a little salt, boiled potatoes and flour, and when ready it was baked in an over or pan.During the famine, the people could not afford to have even one meal a day, and so they gathered "bliopgans"(?) and roasted them.In olden times for a great feast, such as Christmas, a family bought a stone of flour, pound of sugar and an ounce of tea, but when these were used, they did not buy any more until the following Christmas.
- Collector
- Mary Costello
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Craggagh, Co. Mayo
- Informant
- John Lavin
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Carrowreagh, Co. Mayo