School: Cor Bealaigh
- Location:
- Corbally, Co. Sligo
- Teacher: Pádhraic Ó Marcacháin
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- (continued from previous page)standing up and by putting four more on top of that with the grain downwards, and by tying them. They are left there for about a fortnight. They are brough in a cart to the haggard, and made into a stack. the stack is made by putting the sheaves lying on each other, until the stack is finished. Then it is thatched so that no rain will get through it.
In the end of October the threshing-machine comes int. A Meitheal comes and helps at the threshing. One man forks the oats up on the thresher another cuts the banks off, and throws them into the thresher. The oats are separated from the straw and the chaff.
Long ago the people used to thresh it with a flail. To get the chaff away from the oats they used to sieve it.
They bring some of the oats to the mill to get it ground and they keep the rest of it as seed for the next year.
- Collector
- Eileen Hallinan
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Knockroe, Co. Mayo
- Informant
- Mr John Anderson
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Ardvally, Co. Mayo
