Scoil: Baile an Mhuilinn, An Droichead Nua (uimhir rolla 16654)

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1. Folklore - The Potato Crop

   

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   In my district potatoes are grown plentifully. About 10 acres of potatoes are grown every year, in the townland of Grange. This amount varies from year to year sometimes more and sometimes less.
   Men, horses, and machinery prepare the ground.
   The ground is winter ploughed and in spring is cultivated to prepare for the potato crop.
   The potatoes are sown in drills from twenty to twenty four inches apart.
   Farmers use a plough, but the cottagemen mostly use a spade like this. (drawing of spade)
   No spades are made in my district.
   In years gone by wooden ploughs were used, but now a double-boarded plough is used.
   The potatoes are sorted and tubers about the size of a hen's egg are usually used for seed, but some people cut the seed. They are then left for a few days, and stable manure is drawn out to the field.
   One row of manure goes to every seven drills. Those heaps are from five to seven yards apart, and one horseload makes three heaps. The seed is then brought out and planted from ten to twelve inches apart in the drills and covered with manure - afterwards they are covered with clay. Sometimes the neighbours give a hand. The potatoes are grubbed, howed, and freed from

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   1. activities
      1. economic activities
         1. agriculture (~2,659)
            1. potatoes (~2,701)

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   Béarla

   Bailitheoir

   Annie Curran

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   Baineann

   Seoladh

   Punchersgrange, Co. Kildare

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   Rose Curran

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   Tuismitheoir

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   Punchersgrange, Co. Kildare