School: Lough Arrow
- Location:
- Lough Arrow, Co. Sligo
- Teacher: Cathal Ó Dubhghaill
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0182, Page 168
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- (continued from previous page)He put a leirpreachan into his pocket and started home to find a spade to dig it up.
But when he arrived at home there was no Leipreachan in his pocket he had vanished from sight.
But he did not mind he had left the red cloth on the thistle and when he arrived at the field all the thistles were covered with red thistles cloths.
Just then near by he heard the tapping of a hammer and he heard the leipreachan a merry song as if enjoying the joke he played on the boy.
- Oatmeal cakes was the sort of bread the people baked and ate in olden times.
The oats which they used was ground at home by two grinding stones which were called querns. The oatmeal cake was mixed with milk and then it was placed on a flat iron before the fire.
When one side was baked they turned it until the other side was baked.
These oatmeal cakes were very hard when baked. They also used boxty bread.(continues on next page)
