School: Mount Talbot (roll number 14056)
- Location:
- Mount Talbot, Co. Roscommon
- Teacher: M. Ó Héimhthigh
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- I have not been able to get any accounts before the corn mills driven by water were erected.
My father saw the remains of a quern which he found in the garden when he was a young boy. Bread was made from oats which was threshed with a flail and made into oaten meal.
Sometimes the oat cake was baked on a grid iron. This grid iron was a triangular shaped stand standing on three legs about two and a half inches high thick and had a diameter of over a foot and the puzzle to housewives mow - a - days is to know how they made it stand up. This oat - cake was not hard but with reasonable chewing was easily crumbled.
All I can find out about boxty is that raw potatoes were scraped into a sort of jelly. This jelly was put into a bag and(continues on next page)- Collector
- Máirín Ní Eimhthigh
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Mount Talbot, Co. Roscommon
- Informant
- M. Heavey
- Age
- 55
- Address
- Mount Talbot, Co. Roscommon