School: Séipéal na Carraige (roll number 5478)
- Location:
- Rockchapel, Co. Cork
- Teacher: Donncha Ó Géibheannaigh
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0351, Page 225
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- (continued from previous page)especially for the past few years, for some farmers were unable to pay servants.
When the stalks come over the earth, the furrows are dug again, and a little earth put on the ridges to cover the stalks from the frost. This is called threnching.
Just before the blossoms come on, the stalks are sprayed to protect them from the blight. Blue stone and washing soda are dissolved in a tub of water and put on the stalks by means of a spraying machine. Some people use lime instead of the washing soda.
The potatoes are dug with spades and left on the ridges to dry until. The women pick the large potatoes or the fadhbáin and put then into a pit. They afterwards pick the crocháin and pit them for the pigs. The women wear bag aprons and they pick the potatoes into them until the apron is full, then they take them to the pit. A hole is dug in the garden, the potatoes put into it and piled on top of each other until they almost come to a point on top. They are thatched with rushes and earth outside the rushes.
The potatoes chiefly sown in this district are - champions, Irish Queens(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Patrick Collins
- Gender
- Male
- Informant
- Patrick O Connor
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Lyraneag, Co. Cork
