School: Urcher
- Location:
- Urcher, Co. Monaghan
- Teacher: Martha Allister
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- (continued from previous page)Mix some oat meal with boiling water as quickly as possible. Then knead it with some dry oat meal, roll it out and cut it into scones.
Bake in a moderate oven until fairly hard, it hardens better when cool.
- There are four forges in this parish, Mr Willowby's, Mr. Mc Entee's, Mr White's and Mr Keenan's.All these forges with the exception of Mr. Mc Entee's are on or near a cross roads.Three of these men's father's were black-smiths before these men. Mr. White's father was a tinker.Mr. Willowby's forge is in the townland of Corlea, and Mr. Mc Entee's is in the townland of Tappagh, Mr. White's is in the(continues on next page)
