School: Gowna
- Location:
- Scrabby, Co. Cavan
- Teacher: Hugh Murray
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0986, Page 103
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- Oat meal seems to have been in great use around here long ago. It was used in various ways.
It was cooked as stirabout thick and taken for breakfast. Oatmeal was boiled in buttermilk as a cure for colds.
Oatmeal was rafled and the thin portion boiled as a thin stirabout for children after being taken off a milk drink.
Oaten meal was used in many cures, especially in the Cure for a bad heart.
- Tig was and is still in common useJack Stones was plays by all little girls It was played in a cleared space with four small round stones,
Púca Dablóg was played at night it is just the same as Bling Man's Buff.
Hurling as it was called was a common(continues on next page)
