School: Oileán Ciarraí (roll number 10956)
- Location:
- Castleisland, Co. Kerry
- Teacher: Tadhg Ó Céin
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- In olden times in the country wheaten bread was the principal bread made. When the people had no thresh to thresh the oats, they had an old method of threshing it, with an instrument called afeail [?]. It was made of two bits of sticks like a handle of a spade, there was one short one and a long one, the two were joined together with a piece of leather.On the top of the two sticks they were joined together with a fong[?] (strip of leather). The wheat would(continues on next page)