School: Gortaveha (roll number 16488)
- Location:
- Gortaveha, Co. Clare
- Teacher: P. Wiley
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0592E, Page 03_026
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- The bread the old people used long ago was known as horse copper bread. This was wet with milk like the cakes nowadays and baked on a griddle When this was baked it was as hard as a flag and you should have very sound teeth to eat it.
The ground the oats themselves on the nights and on wet days. They had two stones with a hole in them. The oats was then thrown in to the hole and the spike of the other was stuck in to it to keep it firm then the twisted around until it was ground.(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Cáit Ní Chorra
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Derryfadda, Co. Clare
- Informant
- Michael Woods
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 70
- Address
- Derryfadda, Co. Clare
