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School: Clochar na Trócaire, Dún Drongáin (roll number 7232)

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Drangan, Co. Tipperary
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Siúracha na Trócaire
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0557, Page 085

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    Names of Potatoes
    Epicuses, British Queens, Sharps express, Flounders, Early Rose, May Queens. All of these are early varities.
    Kerrs Pinks, Golden Wonders, Pressidents, Up-to-Dates, Successive Champions, Skerries Champions, Shamrocks. All of these are late varities.
    Families help one another to pick potatoes. Skeek is the local name for baskets in which potatoes are picked. Potatoes are dug out by means of a potatoe digger. The potatoes which get
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    Transcribed by a member of our volunteer transcription project.
    History Edit
    Topics
    1. activities
      1. economic activities
        1. agriculture (~2,659)
          1. potatoes (~2,701)
    Language
    English
    Collector
    Josephine White
    Gender
    Female
    Address
    Rathkenny, Co. Tipperary
    Informant
    Philip Gleeson
    Gender
    Male
    Address
    Kilvemnon, Co. Tipperary