School: Cloncovid
- Location:
- Cloncovet, Co. Cavan
- Teacher: S. Savage
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0988, Page 226
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- (continued from previous page)Loaf or shop bread is not much used except as a novelty and soda bread or wheaten bread (home-made) is chiefly used.
Boxty is a dish peculiar to the district. It can be baked boiled or fried and is made from raw grated potatoes, boiled mashed ones and flour. A variation is "the Roger" which is simply Boxty with currants and raisins and which is eaten on Hallow Eve.
I may add that in living memory the people subsisted on potatoes and salt for dinner and supper.
I may also record that local history goes back only about fifty years as most of the people must have been wiped out by the Famine
