School: Cill Cruim / Killocrim (roll number 17072)
- Location:
- Cill Átha Chroim, Co. Chiarraí
- Teacher: Micheál Óg Ó Catháin
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0407D, Page 22_060
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- (continued from previous page)bread and "Paka". Paka was made with yellow meal and was wet with water. Wheaten bread was wet with sour milk.
On St Martin's Eve a duck or a goose would be killed. They would sprinkle the blood on flax. Another name for flax was "tow". They would hang this up on the rafters. This tow was used for all kinds of pains.
On Christmas Day they would eat sweet cake and "stampey". When they would not have these they would eat turnips.
These people used the American bacon. These people ate very late at night. These people ate yellow meal gruel. They never ate an egg from one(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Seán M. Ó Murchadha
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Cill Átha Chroim, Co. Chiarraí
- Informant
- Mr John Joseph Murphy
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Gort Curraoin, Co. Chiarraí
