School: Oileán Ciarraí (roll number 10956)
- Location:
- Castleisland, Co. Kerry
- Teacher: Tadhg Ó Céin
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- (continued from previous page)they give it a dab in each corner. They put them on the cake, because it helps to bake it better.
- Long ago wheat, corn, oats and barley were grown and bread was made from them. The grain was crushed with a quern, that was two flat stones with a big hole in the top one, for putting the grain in between the two stones and a smaller one for a handle.The principal kinds of bread made were oaten meal bread, stampy bread, and potato cake, oaten meal bread was made out of corn crushed with a quern.The way stampy bread was made was by getting raw potatoes and they were peeled. A cloth was then got, and the potatoes were put into the cloth and the juice was squeezed out of the potatoes. The juice or starch was put into a basset, and mixed with flour or meal and salt and was put into an oven to bake(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Con Connor
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Cahereen East, Co. Kerry
- Informant
- Michael Cronin
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 60
- Address
- Cahereen East, Co. Kerry