School: Tighmhanach (roll number 15715)
- Location:
- Tivannagh, Co. Roscommon
- Teacher: Mrs E. Jordan
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An Old Local Song (continued)
“In St. Patrick's Well there used to dwell”
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You are not logged in, but you are welcome to contribute a transcription anonymously. In this case, your IP address will be stored in the interest of quality control.By clicking the save button you agree that your contribution will be available under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License and that a link to dúchas.ie is sufficient as attribution.- The bread the people used long ago was usually potato cake, boxty and oat cake. The way they made potato cake was. They boiled the potatoes and broke them up and mixed them with some flour and salt and baked them on a pan. The way to make boxty is, wash the raw potatoes and peel them. Then grate them. Squeeze some of the water from them, then mix some boiled potatoes salt and flour with them. Then mix well, flatten out in little cakes and bake in a pan. The way they made the oat cake was. They got some oats ground into meal. At that time the people had their own hand mill called a quern. They used to mix the meal with flour and salt and wet it with water and put it standing against a griddle. When the people were going to America after the famine they got over free on English ships, but they had to bring their own food and this was the oat cake. It is very sustaining.