School: Cluaineach (C.) (roll number 11774)
- Location:
- Coolrawer, Co. Sligo
- Teacher: Bean Uí Chlaimhín
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0170, Page 0292
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- The kinds of bread made locally about sixty years ago were always oaten bread, boxty and potato cakes. Flour was very scarce then and a few stones were bought on very rare occasions, as flour was considered a luxury. When the first bag of flour was bought in this district, it contained only four and a half stones of flour.Oat Cakes :—
When the oats was cut it was made into sheaves and then into “stooks”. After a few days seasoning, it was brought into the haggards and stacked. During Winter it was scutched by hitting the sheaves on a big stone, or by hitting the sheaves with a flail, in order to take off the oat seeds. On a windy day the oats was winnowed on a large(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Vera M. Jennings
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Cully, Co. Sligo
- Informant
- Mrs Thomas Walsh
- Gender
- Female
- Age
- 70
- Address
- Cloonlaughil, Co. Sligo
