School: Moyne (C.) (roll number 13990)
- Location:
- Moyne, Co. Longford
- Teacher: Bean Uí Tháibh
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- (continued from previous page)There were no ricks in those times There were no ricks until threshers became common. When the people had the oats threshed they got a riddle and riddled the straws off it. They then brought out the oats to a field and the spread white sheets on the grass and they the oats on a "wite" and they held the "wite" high over the sheets and they spilled the oats down slowly on the sheets and the wind blew the chaff away and the clean oats fell on the sheets Some people who had no barn had to thresh their oats in the kitchen They took the fire to a room and they put a sheet up in front of the(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Mary Jo Gray
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Moyne, Co. Longford
- Informant
- Mr Francis Gallagher
- Relation
- Relative (other than parent or grandparent)
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 43
- Occupation
- Teacher
- Address
- Leggagh, Co. Longford
