School: Derryvoney
- Location:
- Doire Mhóna, Co. an Chabháin
- Teacher: Mary Ní Néill
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- Potato bread was made from boiled potatoes bused and mixed with flour and cooked on the griddle. It was fried when cold. Wheat was ground up between a cairn. The cairn was a hollowed stone with another stone that fit into it. Often bread was made from oaten meal and mixed with boiling water and cooked on a griddle or a grid iron.
- The made Griddle Bread and this bread was baked against the grate moistened with water; also this bread was made very thick(continues on next page)
- Collector
- May Morton
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Doire Mhóna, Co. an Chabháin
- Informant
- Mrs O Reilly
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Doire Mhóna, Co. an Chabháin