School: Coiscéim (B.) (roll number 3886)
- Location:
- Kishkeam Lower, Co. Cork
- Teacher: Tadhg Ó Ceallacháin
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- Long ago the bread was made from oats and wheat. The flour was made locally with a quern.
Some people remember hand mills. Stampy bread was the bread used long ago. When persons had not milk they used water, but breadsoda was never used. Long ago enough for a week at one time was baked. There are marks put on the top of the cake. The cake is supposed to split if the marks are not put in it. Griddle bread was made in this district, but any kind of special bread was never made.
There are no accounts of a hand mill in this district but there was a mill which was worked by a stream in Doon about four miles from the village of Kiskeam.
- Collector
- Michael Twomey
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Knockavoreen, Co. Cork
- Informant
- Con O' Mahony
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 47
- Address
- Kishkeam Lower, Co. Cork
