School: Fothanach (roll number 7980)
- Location:
- Fohanagh, Co. Galway
- Teacher: Diarmuid Ó Conghaile
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- 1. The kinds of bread made in this district area:
Oven bread, Oatenmeal bread, Griddle bread, Potato cake and Boxty. Oaten bread is made from oatenmeal, a pinch of salt, a pinch of breadsoda and water.
Boxty is made from boiled potatoes and raw potatoes peeled and broken and mixed with flour while they are still hot. There is an old saying:
Boxty on the griddle
Boxty on the pan
If you don't eat boxty
You will never be a man".2. "... The cakes of oaten meal were made with water and cut into two halves and either baked on a brand-iron or put standing against a sod of turf before the fire. Corn was grown locally and ground in the querns which were in every house at the time. First the corn was shelled in the quern and then it was(continues on next page)- Collector
- Bridie Sweeney
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Fohanagh, Co. Galway
- Collector
- Stephen Cahill
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Lisnascreena, Co. Galway
- Informant
- Mrs Kenny
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Callow, Co. Galway
- Informant
- Mrs Cahill
- Relation
- Parent
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Lisnascreena, Co. Galway
- Informant
- Mrs P. Sweeney
- Relation
- Parent
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Fohanagh, Co. Galway