School: Moylough (C.) (roll number 13832)
- Location:
- Moylough, Co. Sligo
- Teacher: Margaret Devine
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0170, Page 0131
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- Oat cake was the bread which the people used long ago. They also made potato-cake and boxty. The oatmeal cake was made very thin in a round shape, put on the bread iron and baked in front of the fire.
This bread iron was made of iron and there was a piece of iron at the bottom called a flange to keep the cake from touching the ashes. There was a stand at the back for holding it upright in front of the fire. The people made oat-cake two or three times a week.
There was a mill for grinding oats in Curry called Doyles Mill. Every inter every householder got his oats ground to supply him with oat-meal for the ensuing year. The mill is still there but is no longer in use.
- Collector
- Kathleen Gildea
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Moylough, Co. Sligo
- Informant
- James Brennan
- Relation
- Grandparent
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Moylough, Co. Sligo
