School: Creewood (roll number 5331)
- Location:
- Creewood, Co. Meath
- Teacher: Brighid, Bean Uí Chearnacháin
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- Wheaten bread and oat-meal bread were the kinds of bread made in olden times. Bread was from wheat and oats. People do not remember querns or grindstones.
The different kinds of bread made were potato cakes, boxty bread, oat meal bread, leven bread and wheaten. The oat meal used be mixed with wheaten and baked on a griddle. Bread was baked every(continues on next page)- Collector
- Ellen Field
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Creewood, Co. Meath
- Informant
- Thomas Field
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 55
- Address
- Creewood, Co. Meath