School: Clochar na Trocaire, Cinn Mhara
- Location:
- Kinvarra, Co. Galway
- Teacher: Siúr M. Bernadette
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0049, Page 0339
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- (continued from previous page)very sour butter milk. Some of the people used to eat boiled "nettles" and "dock leaves". They used to boil yellow flowers called "braisce" which grow in cabbage gardens and eat them for their dinner.
If the people ever got a herring for drinner the mother used to boil a big pot of potatoes and fry the herring. She used then throw the potatoes into a thing called a "scib" and they used all sit round it on the floor. She used then put the herring on a plate with gravy on "dip" as they used to call it. The mother used then say to the children "dip the praties in the dip and leave the(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Peggie Regan
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Kinvarra, Co. Galway
- Informant
- John Joe Conneely
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 35
- Address
- Kinvarra, Co. Galway
