School: The Downs (roll number 8875)
- Location:
- The Downs, Co. Westmeath
- Teacher: S. Molloy
Archival Reference
The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0730, Page 209
Image and data © National Folklore Collection, UCD.
See copyright details.
DownloadOpen data
Available under Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)
- XML School: The Downs
- XML Page 209
- XML “Oats-Making”
Note: We will soon deprecate our XML Application Programming Interface and a new, comprehensive JSON API will be made available. Keep an eye on our website for further details.
On this page
- Oats-making
Long ago it was not as easy to cut or save oats as it is nowadays. Long ago there were no mowing machines or reapers. Th e people had to cut the oats with a hook. Now they cut it a mowing machine and tie it with a binder which is attached to every mowing machine. What is cut each time is called a squart. There are people in the field who take out the oats and tie it. When it is all tied it is stacked up in small stacks with sixteen sheaves in each stack. After a fortnight it is put in big stacks with twenty small stack in each big one. When there is room for it in the hazzard it is drawn in. Then it is threshed with a threshing machine. In this machine the oats is seperated from the straw. Then the oats is send to another machine and flour or meal is made from it.
- Collector
- Walter Walsh
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- The Downs, Co. Westmeath
- Informant
- Mary A. Walsh
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- The Downs, Co. Westmeath
