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School: Killmallock Convent School

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Kilmallock, Co. Limerick
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    "Praties and Point"
    It was the custom not to eat meat from Ash Wednesday until Easter Sunday. On Ash Wednesday a flitch of bacon was hung up in the thatch in the kitchen. During Lent the dinner consisted of "Praties and point". When the family was eating the potatoes each of them would point up to the bacon in the thatch and pretend to be eating it.
    Moira O'Grady,
    Sarsfield St.,
    Kilmallock.
    Transcribed by a member of our volunteer transcription project.
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    Topics
    1. genre
      1. verbal arts (~1,483)
    2. products
      1. food products (~3,601)
    Language
    English
    Collector
    Moira O' Grady
    Gender
    Female
    Address
    Kilmallock, Co. Limerick