School: Goirtín
- Location:
- Gorteen, Co. Galway
- Teacher: Máiréad Ní Dhubhthaigh
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- The first time tea came into the district the people spilt the tea away and ate the leaves with a spoon.
The stands that were under the griddle were called 'brand irons'. Some people used to cut a mark on top of the cake so that it would bake well. - The kinds of bread the people had long ago, were potato cake, oaten cake, soda cake, Boxty bread and loaves. They used eat meat only when they would kill a hare or a rabbit. They used to eat an odd salty herring.
- The people made a rhyme about boxty bread. It ran thus
Boxty on the griddle,
Boxty on the pan.
If you don't eat boxty,
you'll never get a man.