School: Clongeen (roll number 4652)
- Location:
- Clongeen, Co. Wexford
- Teacher: Brian Ó Broin
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- In Ireland long ago the people made a different sort of bread than what they make nowadays.
There is a sort called "boxty bread", it was supposed to be the healthiest of them all.
It was made from oats, barley and wheat which was softened in water first. Sometimes only one of those kinds was used.
It was mixed with goat's milk and salt but no soda. It was round in shape, in certain houses a lot of this bread was made and sold to other people. One of those was at William Brennan's of Coolboy.
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“They say that if you sell anything on the 1st day of March the devil spits on the money which you receive.”
They say that if you sell any-thing on the 1st of March the devil spits on the money which you receive and you will never have any luck.
If you set turkey eggs on a Sunday tey will never come out.
