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School: Rakeeragil (roll number 11568)

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Rakeeragh, Co. Monaghan
Teacher:
P. Murray
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0958, Page 165

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  1. Boxty Bread

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    Topics
    1. products
      1. food products (~3,601)
        1. bread (~2,063)
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  2. Flax

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    Long ago the people used to scutch the flax in their own homes. There was in the country what was known as scutch houses and at these houses there was a kiln for drying the flax when they had it dried they beetled it.
    (Where it is now rolled at the mill)Then they made it into streaks or handfulls. Then they put it on a
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