School: Tobar (C.)
- Location:
- Tober, Co. Offaly
- Teacher: Bean Uí Thóirdhealbhaigh
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In the time of the famine (black forty seven) there were several small mills through the country that are not now in existence. There was no machinery as there is now. The grinding stones were called querns. The corn was put on the kiln to be dried by the owner of the so-called mill and word sent to the man that owned the corn to go and attend the querns. He went or if there were two men in the house they went and worked all night swinging those stones and had their meal to take home in the morning.
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- Collector
- Mary A. Galvin
- Gender
- Female
- Informant
- Mrs Eileen Galvin
- Gender
- Female
- Age
- 41
- Address
- Faheeran, Co. Offaly
