School: Drumlish (B.) (roll number 10022)
- Location:
- Drumlish, Co. Longford
- Teacher: Ml. McGovern
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0757, Page 271
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- (continued from previous page)a table along the wall and eat their dinner, and when the dinner was over the table was hung up on the wall. I do not know of anyone having a side table in this district except John Farrell Derawley, I have seen this side table and it was hung up on the wall by an iron peg that was in the wall. About forty or fifty years ago, people used boxty for dinner almost every day, and when they had not butter or bacon for it they put sugar on milk and dipped the boxty in it. They also used sugar and milk when eating stirabout. The stirabout was often made of Indian meal. They also made boxty loaves and eat them when they were cold, they also made dumplins from grated potatoes – thus the grated potatoes were squeezed with a boxty bag and the water wrung out of it then it was mixed with flower(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Vincent Duignan
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Derawley, Co. Longford
