School: Ceathrú na gCloch, Gleann Fraoigh (roll number 12806)
- Location:
- Carrownaglogh, Co. Mayo
- Teacher: Bríd Bhreathnach
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- (continued from previous page)continued...till it soured.When a boy or girl went to America they always brought a supply of oaten cakes to feed them on the ship.
Meat was hardly ever eaten except at Christmas or at a wedding. A goose was killed at Christmas and Martimas maybe. Not a bit of it was wasted. The feathers were carefully preserved to fill a tick. It sometimes took years to fill one. Ticks, well filled, were part of the " fortune " or dowry of the daughters of the family.The intestines of the goose were cleaned and stuffed with oatmeal moistened with the blood of the goose.The fat was preserved as a remedy for pains in the bones.- Collector
- Bríd Bhreathnach
- Gender
- Female
- Occupation
- Múinteoir
- Address
- Bunnyconnellan, Co. Mayo
- Informant
- John Carberry
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 69
- Address
- Glenree, Co. Mayo