School: Achadh Luachra
- Location:
- Aghaloory, Co. Cavan
- Teacher: S. Ó Hárdaigh
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0991, Page 011
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- (continued from previous page)meal and flour into a basin. Then they added soda and salt and mix all together. After that they wet it with milk and mixed it into a dough. Then it was kneaded and put on the griddle to bake. Long ago the people ate salt-meat once a day. The meat they ate long ago was the flesh of the deer, and wild boar which they killed in the chase. Long ago fish and vegetables were always eaten. The people used to eat late at night. There were certain kinds of food eaten at Christmas and Easter. On Easter Sunday eggs were eaten and on Christmas day a goose or a turkey was eaten. Tea was first used in the district at Christmas. The vessels that were used before cups became common were noggins and porringers.
- Collector
- Teresa Leddy
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Ardleny, Co. Cavan
- Informant
- Annie Leddy
- Gender
- Female
- Age
- 73
- Address
- Ardleny, Co. Cavan
