School: Camross, Mountrath (roll number 15933)
- Location:
- Camross, Co. Laois
- Teacher: Pádraig Ó Heifearnáin
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0827, Page 110
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“We have a hay-rake at home.”
(continued from previous page)plant potatoes like us now. They did not till their land with horses and ploughs, because they knew nothing about them.
They only dug little ridges for their crops. They never sowed more than a quarter of an acre of potatoes. They sowed them with a machine. It would take two men a week to sow the potatoes. One man would push the machine along and the other man would cover them after him.
After a day or so the men would go out with two spades(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Seán Collier
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Carrowleigh, Co. Waterford