School: Castlegrove (roll number 15475)
- Location:
- Castlegrove East, Co. Galway
- Teacher: Liam Ó Conaill
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- (continued from previous page)and with shovels. The pits are made nine or ten inches deep. The varieties of potatoes are 'Champeens', 'Epicures' 'Kerry-pinks' 'Pink-eye Champeens' 'Golden Wonders' Germans' 'Flounders' 'King Edward' . "Arann-Canners' 'Up to dates' 'Sharpes Express' 'Rampers' Field Epicures'. 'Champeens' are the best variety of potatoes for the table. Potatoes were used for making starch long ago. Bread is also made from potatoes. First the potatoes are boiled. Then they are peeled and pounded. Then they are put into the place for making the bread and flour is put through them. New milk is used for making them. Bread Soda is not used in making the bread. When it put into an oven the lid of the oven is left off.
- Collector
- Philomena Burke
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Blindwell, Co. Galway
- Informant
- Thomas Burke
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Blindwell, Co. Galway