School: Corry (roll number 7011)
- Location:
- Corry, Co. Westmeath
- Teacher: Mrs Cox
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0741, Page 382
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- (continued from previous page)every Sunday for the dinner. They used to eat potatoes and eggs for Easter Sunday.
On Christmas Eve they used to make potato cake and put currants into it for the dinner on Christmas Day. The poor people never used to see a bit of beef from one Christmas to another.
There were wooden noggins used for drinking out of before cups became common.
The people used ot make a drink called sounds out of the seeds of the oats that came from the mill. An equal part of seeds and oaten meal was put to steep in a crock full of water with an iron spoon left in it to make it sour. When it was steeping for four or five days it was stirred up and strained. The liquid was called "Sounds", it was used for a drink and also for eating stirabout with.
It could also be boiled and eaten with milk like corn-flour of the present day and when it was boiled it was called "Flummery"
- Collector
- Betty Farrell
- Gender
- Female
- Age
- 13
- Address
- Kilmacahill or Caraun, Co. Westmeath
- Informant
- Mrs Farrell
- Gender
- Female
- Age
- 42
- Address
- Kilmacahill or Caraun, Co. Westmeath
