School: Maio (roll number 13119)
- Location:
- Trohanny, Co. Meath
- Teacher: Máire Ní Chreaig
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0707, Page 113
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- (continued from previous page)holding the straw. The oats which was knocked off the straw, was put along the wall in the centre of the barn. When all the oats that was in the barn was threshed, the oats was put through a winnowing machine to take the chaff out of it. The oats that was cleaned was put in bags, and then ground between two stones. Later the mills were built, and it was brought to the mill to be ground. The people had about twenty barrels of oats long ago. Some of the chaff was put in bags, and a tick was made of it.(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Laurence Connor
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Corboggy, Co. Meath
