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School: Rooskey (roll number 4800)

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Roosky, Co. Roscommon
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Luke Caslin
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0257, Page 048

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    Potatoes
    We set five roods of potatoes every year. First potatoes for setting are cut into sets with an eye in each set. First of all the field is ploughed up with a plough into ridges. Then there are holes bored in the ridges with a steeven, and one set dropped into each hole. Then there is farmyard manure put on them, and then there is clay put on them. We plant three roods of potatoes in upland, and two roods in boggy land.
    Teresa Noonan, Cloonawfill
    Ruskey, Co. Roscommon.
    8th Feb. '38
    Transcribed by a member of our volunteer transcription project.
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    Topics
    1. activities
      1. economic activities
        1. agriculture (~2,659)
          1. potatoes (~2,701)
    Language
    English
    Collector
    Teresa Noonan
    Gender
    Female
    Address
    Cloonaufill, Co. Roscommon