School: Wateraghy
- Location:
- Woteraghy, Co. Cavan
- Teacher: C. Ó Cuilinn
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0991, Page 302
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- About eighty years ago there was no such thing as flour in Ireland. The bread mostly used by the Irish was oten bread. There were no mills in the country to mill the oats.
When the people wanted bread the woman of the house would have to go out and cut the oats and separate the oats from the straw, by hopping it against a stone. Then she would riddle it. In every house that time there were two big stones one with a hole in it to put the meal into and another to (put) take the meal from the oats. Then they would put the meal into a baisin and bake the bread.
- Collector
- Kathleen Cosgrove
- Gender
- Female
- Informant
- Patrick Cosgrove
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 65
- Occupation
- Farmer
- Address
- Corlismore, Co. Cavan
