School: Gort na Díogha (roll number 15587)
- Location:
- Gortnadeeve West, Co. Galway
- Teachers: Séamus Ó Dochartaigh Bean Uí Dhochartaigh
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- Long ago the people used to grind meal in the houses. They had two flags about eighteen inches in diameter and about four inches thick
and this was called a quern.
Thos. Brennan said he never saw the quern but instead he saw the oats put in a pot and dried at the fire. Six or eight stone that was dried at a time. This pot was called "boskgeen pota." Then they brought the oats to the kiln to be ground.- Informant
- Thomas Brennan
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 91
- Address
- Knockmascahill, Co. Galway
- Informant
- Thomas Hegearty
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 67
- Address
- Gortnadeeve West, Co. Galway
- "Of the sixty-one diseases no one is as bad as to be too-soft."
"Tá galra agus seacht fiche galra agus ní aon galra aca san is measa ná in tonteact. No disease of the seven x by twenty as bad as to be to easily led astray.- Informant
- Thomas Brennan
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 91
- Address
- Knockmascahill, Co. Galway