School: Ráth Ó gCormaic (C.), Carraig na Siúire
- Location:
- Rathgormuck, Co. Waterford
- Teacher: Eibhlín, Bean Uí Dhálaigh
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0655, Page 338
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- (continued from previous page)bread from oaten-meal, salt, bread-soda and water. There was a man living in Knockavalla named Michael Walsh who used to grind meal for a lot of people. He used to charge a shilling to grind a stone of meal. A bit of that grinder is to be seen yet at Walshs of Knockavalla. The people long ago used to make special bread from potatoes and sour-milk. They do not make it now. Long ago the people used to bake the bread on a griddle to keep it up from the ground. The people have oven-pots now for baking bread. Crosses are put on the bread to make it bake well.
- The bread used long ago was made from wheaten flour and oaten meal. The grain was ground in a mill in Tinhalla and the mill is still in use. It belongs to Mr. Tobin. The wheat was ground in Kilmacow, Co. Waterford / Kilkenny. Oaten meal bread was made with water or sour-milk and a grain of salt. It was rolled out and baked on a griddle and for firing they used withered furze and straw. Flour bread was baked in an oven-pot or(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Eily Power
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Kilbrack, Co. Waterford
