School: Ballivor (roll number 9380)
- Location:
- Ballivor, Co. Meath
- Teacher: T. Ua Conmhidhe
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0694, Page 261
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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. - Long ago, when the family of the house were seated round the fire on a Christmas night, there would be a brack laid on the table, and a bottle of whisky.
The youngest child would spill the whiskey on the brack, and then set it on fire. - Some people call Shrove Tuesday, pan-cake night, because we make pan-cakes.
Most people make then very thick.
Long ago the people used to play a trick on people.
This is the way they used to play it.
They used to tell the person that came in to go to such a house and to get a pan-(continues on next page)
