School: Gleann Gabhna, Tulach an Iarainn
- Location:
- Gleann Gabhrach Íochtarach, Co. Chorcaí
- Teacher: Máire Ní Dhubhshláinghe
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- (continued from previous page)to put down a pot of water with salt in it and when the water would be boiling they would put in the meal and have a nice clean stick to stir it, and a nice moderate fire the way it would not be burned. It would be left boiling for an hour or an hour and a half, and then when it would be boiled it would be taken off the fire and they would then take a saucer of flour and stir it into it.
So you see it is much easier to boil the kettle than to boil a pot of stirabout as it was done in old times.- Informant
- John O' Mahony
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Cill Chrónata, Co. Chorcaí