School: Killea (roll number 3219)
- Location:
- Killea, Co. Leitrim
- Teacher: Séamus Mac Coilín
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0195, Page 227
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- (continued from previous page)alone for a few weeks until the green stalks peep above the dry surface. Then they are moulded by lifting the mouls from the bottom of the furrows on a shovel and spreading it lightly over the ridges and stalks. Then the stalks grow up strong and when they are about a foot above the ground they are sprayed with a solution of melted blue stone and washing soda. This is done in order to prevent the blight from appearing among the potato stalks.
- The manure which had previously been brought to the field where the potatoes are going to be set is spread in rows about a foot wide. A bag of "seed" is brought from the house and when that is used another bagful is brought. The "seed" dropped in the following way. A bucket is filled with the "seed" and they are dropped(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Brigid Mc Gourty
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Lugasnaghta, Co. Leitrim
- Informant
- Jack Rooney
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Lugasnaghta, Co. Leitrim
