School: Kilbeg (roll number 11039)
- Location:
- Robertstown, Co. Meath
- Teacher: Aodh Ó Duibhgeannáin
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0709, Page 164
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- (continued from previous page)in a noggin. There was also a piece of oaten bread for each person. Oaten bread was made by kneeling oaten meal and water mixed to a stiff dough and rolling it out thinly on a baking board. It was then put before the blazing turf fire against an iron called a bread iron and baked until it is quite hard and firm. Then he got stirabout for supper. There was no evening meal but in some houses the people took oaten bread spread with butter and sweet milk about five o’clock in the evening. In better class houses there was white bread or loaf bread, and tea for Sunday.
- Collector
- Philip Melady
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Robertstown, Co. Meath
