School: Graigue, Cill Dairbhe (roll number 4124)

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   "Stampy" bread was made of potatoes. Bread was also made with potatoes and oaten meal and it was baked in a griddle. Bread was baked every night.
   There was a mill on the lands of Mr Michael Walsh, Kilclooney, KIldorrery Co. Cork, and there was a stream near it which was always called the "mill stream." Flour was ground on a small scale. This mill was worked by water.

   

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   Bread was made from wheat grown locally. The wheat was ground at a mill near where Glenanudig Bridge now is, and in the townland of Oldcastletown, Kildorrery, Co. Cork. The ruins of this mill are still to be seen. It was owned by a man named Carroll. Griddle cakes were mostly eaten.(Sometimes potato cakes were eaten). Flour mixed with soda and wet with milk were used in the making of these cakes. They were baked in an iron utensil which had no cover; this was called a griddle. When the bread was baked underneath

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   1. products
      1. food products (~3,601)
         1. bread (~2,063)

   Language

   English

   Collector

   Patrick Durane

   Gender

   Male

   Address

   Aghacross, Co. Cork

   Informant

   Mr James Durane

   Gender

   Male

   Age

   54

   Address

   Aghacross, Co. Cork