School: Naomh Muire, Carraig Thuathail (roll number 2050)
- Location:
- Carrigtohill, Co. Cork
- Teacher: Criostóir Bheldon
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0384, Page 116
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- In the Famine times the people used make bread from barley and a lot of the people eat it died. I was speaking to a man called Patrick Fehilly who said he saw a quern in Killeagh. Long ago they used bake twice a week. The marks used put on cakes was a cross and prods of a knife or a fork to keep the sides of the cake from cracking. The names of the vessels in which the bread was baked are a criddle and a bastable. Children when their mothers used be baking any pieces of dough that used be left after cake and put it before the fire. They used put two little pieces of sticks for a support called skivers.(continues on next page)
- Collector
- R. Barry
- Address
- Carrigane, Co. Cork
- Informant
- Tim Barry
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Carrigane, Co. Cork
