School: Fearth Mór (Brooklawn) (roll number 15508)
- Location:
- Fartamore, Co. Galway
- Teacher: Treasa, Bean Mhic Aonghusa
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- The people long ago used to eat oaten-meal bread whole meal bread boxty and potato bread. For November night usually they used have boxty and for Christmas night potato cakes.
In a Iosad they used to make the bread and sometimes on the table. A Iosad was like a wooden dish two or three inches high.
They used to bake the bread on a griddle and on a grid iron and also on a maide-árain. Oaten meal bread they used to bake on a grid iron and whole meal bread on a griddle. They used to also bake the oaten-meal bread standing by the fire against two sticks standing together and another at the back to hold them up the shape of an A
The grid iron was a square article having two side bars and ten cross ones and four legs under it.- Collector
- Máire Búrca
- Gender
- Female