School: Cluain Catha (roll number 16291)
- Location:
- Clooncah, Co. Roscommon
- Teachers: Dll. Ó Módhráin Ss. Mac Eoghain
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- The kind of bread made in the district long ago was oat-meal bread, boxty bread and potato bread.
The bread was made from oats grown locally but flour was not made locally.
Long ago the people used querns and grind stones.
The principal kinds of bread made were boxty bread potato bread, and oatmeal. They made boxty bread by rasping potatoes and mixing four with it and then baking it on a griddle. The people boiled potatoes and peeled them and mixed them up with flour and then made them into a cake which they baked on a griddle.
The people made oat-meal bread by mixing oat-meal and water and baking it on a griddle and sometimes(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Una Collins
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Clooncah, Co. Roscommon
- Informant
- Margaret Cuffe
- Gender
- Female
- Age
- 66
- Address
- Clooncah, Co. Roscommon
