School: Carraigíní (roll number 11693)
- Location:
- Carrigans Lower, Co. Sligo
- Teacher: Thos. Mc Gettrick
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- (continued from previous page)to the grave with them.
- The vessels used for the boxty were noggins. They had an old lid of a gallon and bored holes in it for a grater. They grated the potatoes into the noggin, a pinch of flour and salt. Then they had a fine cloth and squeezed the water out of the potatoes.They baked it on a pan with a little grace underneath so as not to let it burn. They made eight or nine cakes. This custom is still kept up to the present day.
- Collector
- Rosie Scanlon
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Carrigans Lower, Co. Sligo
- In olden times people never had(continues on next page)