School: Killea (roll number 3219)
- Location:
- Killea, Co. Leitrim
- Teacher: Séamus Mac Coilín
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0195, Page 256
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- (continued from previous page)mixture is made into small balls each about the size of a very large apple. Then an oven is hung up on the fire and while it is heating she puts some flour into the basin and takes one of the balls and flatten it out until it is about half an inch thick. Then she cuts it into four quarters and places it in the oven. When one side is browned she turns it and when it is baked she takes it out. This performance is so repeated with each of the balls. Potato is called "slim cake" in this locality
- Severe Weather (1)
My father said that the wind storm in 1884 was the worst in his memory. It happened when he was only sixteen. Hundreds of ricks were tossed and spread over the land convenient to them. A few haystacks were blown down in this district and out houses were stripped of their zinc roofs. Sheets of zinc were brought miles away from where they belonged and some of them were blown into rivers and swept away by the great flood which followed the windstorm. There was a constant flow of rain coming from the heavens from 3pm(continues on next page) - Collector
- John Gordon
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Lugasnaghta, Co. Leitrim
- Informant
- John Gordon
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Lugasnaghta, Co. Leitrim
