School: Tattenclave
- Location:
- Tattintlieve, Co. Monaghan
- Teacher: Bríd Ní Chróinín
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0948, Page 291
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- (continued from previous page)was finished would help the other men. They would all work till they would have the field all set. Then they would take their share until every man got what he wanted.
They put the potatoes in ridges all that time. They would gather together in summer time and mould them twice. They would pull the weeds out of them be fore the would mould them. The way they moulded the potatoes was: they dug a deep furrow on each side of every ridge and made the clay fine by hitting it with the back of a spade until it was very fine. Then a man would come with a shovel and shovel the clay through the stalks of the potatoes.
- Collector
- Peter Smyth
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 14
- Address
- Liscumasky, Co. Monaghan
