School: Páirc an Iarla (roll number 9303)
- Location:
- Rathpeak, Co. Roscommon
- Teacher: Mícheál Mac Ceit
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- (continued from previous page)this district long ago. The name of the potatoes that are sown are. The Irish Queen, Champion, Ker pink, Garden fillers, the Epicure, and Golden wonders. The potatoes that are not sown are the leather luge. And if your sown it, it would grew a lot of small ones which is called pootings.
In a very few places people help one another. They would give a neighbour a few days help and that man would help them again. When the stalk is up a foot above the clay we hoe them and then we pick the weeds out of them. When we have that done we mould them up.
Then in Autumn we picks the weeds out of them again. And hoe down the drill again. We dig them in October and it takes a month or so. It is the children picks the potatoes. The potatoes are put into pits in the fields first. Then after a few weeks he brings them in and put them in pits in the garden. The best type of potatoes(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Kathleen Killeen
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Rathpeak, Co. Roscommon
- Informant
- Mr P.J. Killeen
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Rathpeak, Co. Roscommon
