School: St Patricks Convent, Kilkenny (roll number 10478)
- Location:
- Kilkenny, Co. Kilkenny
- Teacher: Sr. M. Dominic
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- (continued from previous page)buttermilk salt and bread- soda. On Easter Sunday morning rashers were eaten with eggs. Cabbage and turnips were the only vegetables in use.
On Shrove Tuesday people stayed up till twelve o clock to make pan-cakes and then eat them. - Herbs are got from weeds which grow in great abundance in our gardens. Most weeds are very harm-ful to our crops. A man always has to keep an eye on his crops.
There are various kinds of weeds such as dock-leaves leghorn- greens or yellow mints. The dock-leaf is(continues on next page)- Collector
- Ella Howard
- Gender
- Female