School: Cill Átha (roll number 9298)

Location:
Killagh More, Co. Galway
Teacher:
Mrs Pender
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0045, Page 0150

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  1. Long ago bread was made from meal which was got from wheat, oats and rye. These were grown by most farmers in the district. The people ground their own wheat into flour and the oats and rye into meal by means of a quern or grind stone.
    The different kinds of bread made in olden times in my district were oaten bread , potato cake, and rye bread.
    The oaten bread was made by putting the oat meal into the losset. The oat-meal was wet with luke warm water and then the meal would be kneaded well. Sometimes a
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    Topics
    1. products
      1. food products (~3,601)
        1. bread (~2,063)
    Language
    English
    Collector
    Mary Clarke
    Gender
    Female
    Age
    14
    Informant
    Mrs Clarke
    Relation
    Unknown
    Gender
    Female
    Age
    73
    Address
    Killagh More, Co. Galway