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School: Baile Uí Mhuireadhaigh (roll number 12964)

Location:
Ballymurray, Co. Roscommon
Teacher:
Eibhlín Ní Ghealbháin
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0265, Page 089

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    Oaten-bread was the staple food of the local people in former times.
    This bread was made from oaten-meal got by grinding the oats grown in the district.
    Flour was never ground locally as there were no flour-mills in the locality.
    It is said that a great number of querns were used in this district, and with these they used to grind the oats into meal.
    The different kinds of bread which the people made were potato-cake, boxty-bread, and oat-meal bread.
    It is said that bread was baked twice or three times a week.
    Griddle bread was also made.
    Transcribed by a member of our volunteer transcription project.
    History Edit
    Topics
    1. products
      1. food products (~3,601)
        1. bread (~2,063)
    Language
    English
    Informant
    Mrs Mary K. Lough
    Gender
    Female
    Address
    Cloonconra, Co. Roscommon