School: Mín na Cille, Mainistir na Féile (roll number 16239)
- Location:
- Meenkilly, Co. Limerick
- Teacher: Aindrias Ó Dúnadhuighe
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0494, Page 191
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- Long ago when there were no threshing or winnowing machine. They used have to put the oats into a barn, and get flails and hold striking every sheaf until the last of the grain was out of it. The flails was in two parts like two handles of brushes joined together with a bit of leather so that when they would raise the flails the sheaf would get an awful stroke. Then the oats would be gathered up into sacks, then they should wait for a wild day to winnow it and take it out in the middle of a field. Then a man stood up on a chair and held the pan of oats up as high as he could, and as the oats fell to the ground the chaff flew away with the wing and another man on his knees with the wings of a goose to gather off any bit of straw or dirt that may mix up on it.
- Collector
- Siobhan Ní Murcadha
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Meenkilly, Co. Limerick
- Informant
- Nellie Murphy
- Gender
- Female
