School: The Downs (roll number 8875)
- Location:
- Na Dúnta, Co. na hIarmhí
- Teacher: S. Molloy
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0730, Page 104
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- Many years ago farmers found it very hard to make oats, as they had no machinery.
They had to cut the oats with hooks or scythes and this was very tedious as well as tiresome.
Many farmers gathered together to cut each others oats.
When the oats was cut it was bound in sheaves.
Women used to do most of the binging.
Then it was put into sticks and when it was dry enough it was put into stacks.
Then it is left in the field for about a month.
In the late Autumn it is brought into the barn then they thrashed it with a tool called a flail.
Then they brought it to a mill and had it ground into meal.
- Collector
- Teresa Maguire
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Na Dúnta, Co. na hIarmhí
- Informant
- Joseph Maguire
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 68
- Address
- Na Dúnta, Co. na hIarmhí
