School: Trí Trian (Three Trees) (roll number 2680)
- Location:
- Three Trees, Co. Donegal
- Teacher: Caitlín A. Scott
Archival Reference
The Schools’ Collection, Volume 1113, Page 433
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- (continued from previous page)made into oat meal.
The corn runs through the riddles to take off the chalf.
Some of the farmers get their corn threshed with the steam mill.
The mill is pulled with an oil engine.
There is a big belt from the engine to the mill.
A man feeds to the mill.
A man forks off the stack unto the mill and a man cuts the straps with a big knife.
The straw comes out of the back of the mill and the corn comes out of the other end.
There are bags put to the end that the corn comes out of.
The corn runs into the bags.
Then, the corn is weighed on a weigh bridge.
Sixteen stone of corn is put into every bag.(continues on next page)
- Collector
- William Allen
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Three Trees, Co. Donegal
