School: Cluaineach (C.) (roll number 11774)
- Location:
- Coolrawer, Co. Sligo
- Teacher: Bean Uí Chlaimhín
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0170, Page 0293
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- (continued from previous page)sheet and cleaned thoroughly of chaff, dust etc. The cleaned oats was then packed in coarse home-spun sacks and sent to the mill to be ground into oat-meal.
There was a mill in every townland. There was a mill in Broaka belonging to Myles Henry, Martin Scally Cloonaughill, Paddy Doyle Carrarea and John Murphy Charlestown. The oats was first dried in a kiln (a part of the mill). It was put into a machine and shilled to take the husks off.
Afterwards it was winnowed to separate the kernal from the husk. The oats was put on a loft and poured down rapidly and ground between two circular grinding stones driven by water power. The oat-meal was taken home from the mill and hand sifted to separate the(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Vera M. Jennings
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Cully, Co. Sligo
- Informant
- Mrs Thomas Walsh
- Gender
- Female
- Age
- 70
- Address
- Cloonlaughil, Co. Sligo
