School: Kildavin, Ferns
- Location:
- Kildavin, Co. Carlow
- Teacher: Tadhg de Brí
Archival Reference
The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0911, Page 245
Image and data © National Folklore Collection, UCD.
See copyright details.
DownloadOpen data
Available under Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)
- XML School: Kildavin, Ferns
- XML Page 245
- XML “Bread”
Note: We will soon deprecate our XML Application Programming Interface and a new, comprehensive JSON API will be made available. Keep an eye on our website for further details.
On this page
- Bread in olden times was not very nice. Sometimes it was made of linseed meal and wheaten meal and sometimes of flour, and was baked on a griddle. The griddle was a square with bars going through it. It had three legs and a long handle out of it. Wheat and oats were always grown in this district, but there was not much wheat grown. Flour was made locally in this district. There were querns for grinding the wheat. There was a quern in Craanmore for grinding. They used to grind it at night and they used to get up very early in the morning and bake the bread and have it for breakfast. The bread was usually made with milk, but the poor people had to make it with water. Some people baked every day others baked enough for a week at the one time.
- Collector
- Lillie Murphy
- Gender
- Female
- Informant
- Mr D. Murphy
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 71
- Occupation
- Farmer
- Address
- Cranemore, Co. Carlow
