School: Cluain Fhada (C.) (roll number 15558)
- Location:
- Cloonfad, Co. Roscommon
- Teacher: Mrs. Flood
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- Long ago the people used to use wooden ploughs which were made by cartpenters. Certain parts of the plough were made of iron for instance the soc, coulter, and mould board were made from iron. Michael Hunt was the last man in Gurteen who had a wooden plough. There isn't any part of it left now as it rotted away. It was the same make of a plough as the iron one.
- Collector
- Mary Teresa Noone
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Gorteenacammadil, Co. Roscommon
- Informant
- Mr Redmond Fleming
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 78
- Address
- Gorteenacammadil, Co. Roscommon
- In the case of early potatoes the slits are put into a dark corner and the buds are let grow on them. Then they are carried out carefully on a board to the field and they are sown.
Starch used to be made long ago from potatoes by scraping them and putting them into a boal of water and the starch(continues on next page)
