School: Mullinahone (C.) (roll number 15363)
- Location:
- Mullinahone, Co. Tipperary
- Teacher: Máire Ní Shéaghdha
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- (continued from previous page)known as earthing the potatoes.To prevent the blight, the potatoes are twice sprayed with a mixture of blue-stone (Cupper-Sulphate) washing soda and water.In Autumn the potatoes are taken out by means of a digger and are picked by paid help, the good old custom of "couring" having, unfortunately, died out. The potatoes are then chosen and put in the barn for the winter. The most popular potatoes are the Epicure and Duke of York of the early varieties, and Kerrs-Pink, Irish Queen and Aran Banners of the Main Crop.
- Farmers 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 potato digger. The potatoes which get walked into the ground in course of picking are dug out with a special harrow for the purpose.
- Collector
- Mary Gleeson
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Kilvemnon, Co. Tipperary
- Informant
- Philip Gleeson
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 47
- Occupation
- Farmer
- Address
- Kilvemnon, Co. Tipperary
