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School: An Chathair (roll number 5119)

Location:
Caher West, Co. Kerry
Teacher:
Séamus Ó Tuathaigh
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0461, Page 594

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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0461, Page 594

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  1. Clothes (continued)

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    clothes by guesswork as he was not a good scholar.
    In the olden times the people made the linen articles such as shirts and sheets in their own homes and when the young people were in bed the old women were to heard spinning flax and thread by the firesides.
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  2. Potatoes

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    Nowadays every farmer owns a plough and harrow and in this way he sets his potatoes very easily. Long ago the only implements possessed by the farmer were a spade, a shovel, and a grafan.
    Up to about one hundred years ago the potato was the staple food of the people. At that time when a farmer wanted to bring in a new field he simply graffed the trenches with a
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    Topics
    1. activities
      1. economic activities
        1. agriculture (~2,659)
          1. potatoes (~2,701)
    Language
    English
    Collector
    Proinnséas Ó Núanáin
    Gender
    Male
    Address
    Cooragweanish, Co. Kerry