School: An Cillín (roll number 16603)
- Location:
- Killin, Co. Donegal
- Teacher: Séamus Mac Eachlainn
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- (continued from previous page)on it. This iron used to be used where there would be a big family and then they used to have a cake on the grid-iron and on the bread-iron at the one time. The stand under it was called the handle?.
The people had in a very odd case a bread stick. It was used for hardening an oaten cake to the fire, after it would be half done on the bread-iron, if they had only one bread iron.
Boxty bread was usually made for Hallow Eve.
A cross was usually put on top of every cake to show that it came from the maker.- Collector
- Annie Teresa Boyle
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Drumlaghtafin, Co. Donegal
- Informant
- Anne Meehan
- Gender
- Female
- Age
- 77
- Address
- Drumlaghtafin, Co. Donegal