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School: Béal Átha Feorainne (C.) (roll number 15653)

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Ballyforan, Co. Roscommon
Teacher:
Áine Bean Uí Chuillin
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0271C, Page 06_017

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    some horses and carts. The marriage feast consisted of oaten bread, boiled bacon and whiskey punch. Very wealthy marriages might have a goose for the feast when the married couple entered there was oaten bread broke over their heads. The customs of Shrove Tuesday were pan cakes oaten potatoe cake and fried bacon for supper and boxty cake or starch cake this was made in this way by scraping raw potatoes and straining the juice through a cloth mix some flour and salt that made the boxty cake.
    Transcribed by a member of our volunteer transcription project.
    History Edit
    Topics
    1. activities
      1. social activities (~7)
        1. rites of passage (~573)
          1. marriage (~4,283)
    Language
    English
    Collector
    Lena Daly
    Gender
    Female
    Address
    Torpan More, Co. Roscommon