School: Creach na mBearna
- Location:
- Greaghnafarna, Co. Roscommon
- Teacher: Tomás Breathnach
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home grown and ground either by a hand mill in the homes or ground in the local mill. A cousin of mine told me that when he was a young man he with two others went to a widow to reap her field of oats. He said the first two sheaves they cut made their breakfast that day. The widow brought in the sheaves, dried them over the fire, took out the grain winnowed it by pouring it from a vessel called a wight on to a large cloth then she ground it into meal in the hand mill or quern and boiled the meal for the breakfast.
Oat meal was also made into oat cake and baked before the fire in a griddle. The griddle for holding the oat cake at the fire was made of three concentric circles of metal with a loose bar attached to the outer rim(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Leo Layden
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Derrinisky, Co. Roscommon
- Informant
- Mrs Christie
- Gender
- Female
- Age
- 60
- Address
- Arigna, Co. Roscommon
